Clipping:Spalding's version of the events leading the Players' League
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| Date | Tuesday, November 12, 1889 |
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| Text | “Now, I will tell you the cause of this new scheme of the Brotherhood, and the sole reason,” said Mr. Spalding to a Dispatch reporter. “It was nothing more or less than $200. Early last summer in Chicago, Ward called on me, and as Chairman of the Brotherhood committee, demanded that the League should modify its sales system and the total abolishment of the classification rule. He also wanted the case of Sutcliffe, of Cleveland, considered. Sutcliffe was being paid $200 less by the Forest City folks than the Detroits had paid him. This was the only players' grievance the Brotherhood had, and I told Ward that as it was such a small amount I had not the slightest doubt that the matter could be satisfactorily arranged. I also said that it was not customary for the League to hold a meeting so early in the season, and furthermore, I thought the three demands did not deserve special consideration. I, however, promised to write to my colleagues of the League committee, Messrs. Day and Rogers, and I did so. Their answer was to the effect that I had given Ward the proper answer, and that a meeting should be held later in the season. I apprised Ward of the committee's decision, and his answer was that his committee had been discharged, and therefore all discussions were at an end, so far as the Brotherhood was concerned. Thus you see that the trifling sum of $200 was the cause of all this late agitation. |
| Source | Pittsburgh Dispatch |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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