One such story, given rather wide circulation by a sportscaster and printed in at least two books, had it that years ago a young Chicagoan who later became an official of the Missouri Pacific Railroad so idolized the White Stockings that he named nine Kansas way stations after his heroes when he grew up.
Rather, it was a form of civil patronage intended to support the widercirculation of the scholarly work that become very much a public enterprise by the latter half of the twentieth century.