1934-1935

The Boston Red Sox secured the rights to Moose’s contract for 1934, as new owner Tom Yawkey and general manager Eddie Collins began to spend money to sign up good players. Word was that Yawkey had forked out $20,000 to $50,000 (reported figures differ) to Baltimore in early September 1933 to get Julius "Moose" Solters, outbidding a number of other teams. He was, wrote The Sporting News, “one of the best batting prospects to be developed in the International in some time.” ...

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