Hack

Squat little Outfielder Lewis Robert ("Hack") Wilson, with the smallest feet and the dirtiest uniform in baseball, got his first big league job with the New York

Giants in 1923. When his hitting slumped, he went back to the minor leagues where the Chicago Cubs picked him up in 1926. In 1930 he hit 56 home runs, more than Babe Ruth. For doing so he got $33,000 salary in the season of 1931, in which the less lively ball adopted by the National League helped his batting average drop to .261. Last autumn the Cubs traded squatty Wilson to the St. Louis Cardinals for Pitcher Burleigh Grimes and minor considerations. The Cardinals offered to pay him $7,500 for 1932. When Wilson said he wanted more, the Cardinals last week arranged a deal whereby they acquired an unspecified sum of money and a rookie outfielder while the Brooklyn Robins acquired recalcitrant Wilson and the problem of how much to pay him.

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