Clipping:League signing minor leaguers, buying minor league clubs to counter the Players League
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| Date | Wednesday, October 2, 1889 |
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| Text | There is no doubt that steps are being taken by the League to fill up its clubs from the minor leagues when the Brotherhood men go out. But the move is being made as a bluff to meet a bluff. This is a mistake. The players' move is past the bluff stage, and when met must be met by a lasting and business arrangement. No move by the League clubs will be likely to turn the Brotherhood's mission aside. The Sporting Life October 2, 1889 At a secret meeting of the president and directors of the Omaha Base Ball Association to-day [9/24] it was decided to accept the proposition of Messrs. Soden, Conant and Billings, of Boston, for the sale of the entire Omaha team to that city. The probable result will be that Omaha will have no team in the field next year. Whether she does or not will depend on the concession to be obtained in the way of new grounds, cable privileges, etc. For a handsome sum, running up into the thousands Boston virtually agrees to take the entire team, but after selecting as many of them as they deem of use to them out of the thirteen now on Omaha's roster, the balance are to remain the property of the Omaha Club to form a nucleus of a team for next year, if the management here [Omaha] sees proper to continue the venture. Further, out of the thirteen men constituting the Omaha Club the Boston parties agree to hold out eight, leaving Omaha a balance of five without cost. At the close of the Western Association championship season at Milwaukee last Sunday, the proposition further specifies, Manager Selee is to take the entire team to the Hub, and the selections will then be made after the boys have been sized up on the field. The price offered by Conant & Co. could not be ascertained, but it is of such tempting dimensions that the Omaha contingent deemed it foolhardy to ignore it... The Sporting Life October 2, 1889 Manager Morton, of the Minneapolis Club, has sold Elmer Forster and Martin Duke, the pitcher, to A. G. Spalding, for the Chicago League team, the price paid being $4000. Right fielder Carroll, of St. Paul, has been sold to Minneapolis for $1000. The Sporting Life October 9, 1889 |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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