Biography"After the 1917 season, the Phillies traded Alexander and catcher Bill Killefer to the Cubs for catcher Pickles Dillhoefer, pitcher Mike Prendergast, and $60,000.[7] Phillies owner William Baker later admitted, "I needed the money."[8] After the United States entered World War I, Alexander was drafted into the Army, and one month before shipping out, he married Amy Marie Arrants on May 31 in a courthouse ceremony in Manhattan, Kansas (the couple divorced in 1929, remarried in 1931, and divorced again in 1941)."--Wikipedia
