File:Thomas Clarke Sporting Life.jpg
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Copied from the front page of "The Sporting Life", September 10, 1910. Original caption/text: THOMAS A, CLARKE, Catcher of the Cincinnati National League Club. Thomas A. Clarke one of the catchers of the Cincinnati National League Club, waa born In Harlem, New York City. May 9, 1888. He started playing ball on Public School No.43's team in 1901. His battery partner being Sammy Smith, whc was with Clarke in Montreal and who was with him for a short time in Cincinnati last year. Clarke later caught for the Bradhurst A. C., the Avonia A. C., and the All-Nationals, He joined the Montreal Club in July, 1907, and would have been with the Royals a year earlier if his parents had not objected to his playing professional ball. Manager Clark Griffith, then with the New York Americans, recommended Clarke to the Montreal Club, the "Old Fox" having had Clarke practicing on the hilltop and then discerning his worth. Clarke was bought by the Cincinnati Club Fall of 1908 for $2,500, and has been a member of the Cincinnati team since, having measured up to major league calibre.
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