January 16, 1914 Age 22
Sporting Chat Pittsburgh Daily Post
Another organized baseball representative to come to Pittsburgh for the purpose of saving players was President Schuyler Britton of the St. Louis Nationals. He succeeded in signing Pitcher Bill Doak, the Knoxville boy, and left for Rochester, Pa., to get the signature of Pitcher Casey Hagerman.
Doak signed his contract at Pirate headquarters at his own request. “I signed my first contract with Wheeling at the office of the Pittsburgh club, and it brought me luck, so I want my good fortune to continue,” Bill explained.