Clipping:A charged abuse of the reserve system
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| Date | Monday, January 28, 1884 |
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| Text | The player who preferred charges against the Fort Wayne Club to the Northwestern League Convention unqualifiedly declare they were unjustly dealt with, and that the Convention was manipulated in the interest of the League and American Association at a sacrifice of their rights. They assert that the Fort Wayne Club was in arrears to the Quincy Club over $200 for guarantees, and also owed dues to the Association, for both of which it should have been expelled, whereas it was reinstated as a member in good standing upon settling those accounts. Then the ten players presented their claims, each one thinking that his case was sure to hold. But they counted without their host. Fort Wayne had reserved them, and, as it was not the policy of the League and the American Association to permit so many reserved men to go out on the market untrammeled, the men who were doing their bidding had no alternative but to sustain the club, and thereby hold the players. St. Louis Post-Dispatch January 28, 1884, quoting an unidentified exchange the rules of baseball on ice In base ball games on the ice the rules are of necessity greatly modified from those of the regular field game. In the first place the base running is different, inasmuch as the runners are allowed to over-run every base and to return to them without being put out, provided they turn to the right after passing over each base line. If they turn to the left, however, they cease to be exempt from being put out in returning. The rules governing the battery work, too, are different, the batsmen being obliged to strike at every ball within fair reach, whether high or low, or not exactly over the base, while balls are only called on the pitcher when he sends in balls either by any kind of a throw, or to the left of the batsman or out of his fair reach, and then six balls give a base. The rule for catchers, too, includes bound catches of fair balls as well as of foul. With these exceptions the game is played as ordinarily. The Sporting Life January 30, 1884 |
| Source | St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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