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Artful Dodger

When he left home for Detroit in 1917,

Morris Solomon was not about to give up his first love.

Morris Solomon,
second from right,
bottom row, went
directly to Horace
Dodge for the
right to play on
the Dodge
Brothers team.
Solomon's son,
Abe, front,
was the batboy.

Inset:
Morris Solomon
in later years

one Pinsker
Special to The AppleTree

When our father, Morris Solomon, was born in St.
Louis in 1893, we like to say he had a baseball
s
bat in one hand and a mitt on the other.
As a boy, when Dad wasn't skipping school to play in a
sandlot game, he was somewhere watching one.
Had things been different, he might have tried to make the
game his career. But after Dad married and staffed a family,
supporting us was his first priority.
The life of professional baseball players in the early days of
the century was not glamorous. They traveled on broken-down buses, slept
in rundown hotels and were poorly paid.
Dad chose instead to live the life vicariously. He became a fan of the St.
Louis Browns and learned all about the players. He also continued to play
well in sandlot gaMes.

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