Clipping:A call for minor league representation on the Board of Arbitration
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| Date | Wednesday, April 4, 1888 |
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| Text | [from editorial content] Every phase of the Kansas City squabble [between AA and Western League clubs] serves to illustrate the strength of the position taken by The Sporting Life in its battle last fall for Reservation Privileges and Representation upon the Board of Arbitration for minor leagues... Reservation was granted, but representation, unwisely and illogically, was refused, mainly through the opposition of the Association members of the Board, aided by Mr. John B. Day, of the League trio, Col. Rogers and President Young alone working and voting for it. … A minimum representation of the combined minor leagues upon the Board of Arbitration will make it in fact what it is in name, and not only avert all the dangerous possibilities lurking in the present condition, but be also the means of cementing and solidifying the vast and growing base ball interests of the country, without in the least destroying the individuality of the various leagues or at all interfering with the prerogatives of either of the major organizations—a contingency at least one of the two powers seems to unreasonably and weakly fear. Representation for minor leagues is a safety-valve that must be applied sooner or later to the engine of the National Agreement, in order that that bulwark of the National game may be placed beyond the possibility of destruction through ignorance, malice, caprice or selfishness. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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