Clipping:AA clubs recruiting NL players
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| Date | Sunday, August 20, 1882 |
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| Text | Just now the papers published in League cities are agonizing over the American Association, and holding it up to ball players as something awful and something that they should severely let alone, if they value self-respect and certain salaries. These articles have been called forth by the inroads made on League teams by the agents and managers of American clubs, and by the League rule prohibiting the engagement of players before October 1st. they are forced to stand idly by and see their best players taken away from them by the American clubs, whose swelling treasuries allow them to outbid the League in the secural [sic] of the best playing talent. There are many other reasons outside of salaries that are depleting the League, and among the number are excessive fines, unjust exactions, and a niggardly spirit that controls League management. In the matter of fines the League has gone entirely too far, and has driven several of its best players into the rival organization. Unjust exactions, such as the deduction of fifty cents a day from players while traveling, the purchase of suits, etc., will also stand responsible for driving players from the League. In the matter of the purchase of suits, the present President of the League has a monopoly, and by League legislation every player is forced to purchase from hi, and at prices fifty per cent. higher than could be obtained at other establishments. In a single word, the spirit of the League clubs towards their players is to treat them like hired men, with no rights that the League need respect. The American Association was organized to protect both players and managers, and their policy adopted is most liberal. Managers ask of players their best services, and treat them like gentlemen, and not like slaves. There are no fines in the American for trivial causes. There is no reduction in salaries when traveling. There is no monopoly to toady to, managers furnishing themselves the player's suits, and a player's salary represents just so much money, and is not reduced by fines, as in many cases that could be cited from the League, to just one-half the stipulated amount. This policy is attracting to the American the very best players in the country and the fate of the League can be easily told unless they come down from their high horse. Already there is a movement to right many of the wrongs of the League, and whatever justice players may receive in the future they will have the American to thank for. |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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