Benny Kauff

[1] Indianapolis rode his league-leading bat to the first league crown in 1914,[3] but traded him to the Brooklyn Tip-Tops before the 1915 season.

[4] Kauff was called "Ty Cobb of the Feds" for his dominant hitting during both years of the Federal League's existence.

Kauff's two-homer game was the only one achieved by a National League player in the World Series until Bob Elliott of the Boston Braves did it in 1948.

[12] He claimed that Shields and Whalen had given him what turned out to be a false bill of sale, thus leading him to believe the car had been acquired legally.

Kauff argued that he had not only been deceived by his employees, but also presented evidence that showed he had been eating dinner with his wife at the time the car was stolen.

He also told baseball writer Fred Lieb that he personally believed Kauff was guilty, and claimed his acquittal "smelled to high heaven" and was "one of the worst miscarriages of justice that ever came under my observation.

[14] In his ruling, Justice E. G. Whitaker of the New York State Supreme Court did agree that "an apparent injustice has been done the plaintiff [Kauff]," because "at his time there is no contract between him and the defendant.

[15] Even though banned from playing, he served as a baseball scout for 22 years before becoming a clothing salesman for John R. Lyman Co.[12] He died on November 17, 1961, in Columbus, Ohio.