Clipping:A defense of the mandatory guarantee: take it or leave it
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| Date | Sunday, December 30, 1877 |
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| Text | The threat contained in the assertion in the Courier, that “the outsiders can live better without the League than the League without the outsiders,” is one with which the League has really very little to do. It has agreed to play thirty or thirty-five games per ground up to the end of the series for the championship. The season is nominally six months or 1844 days. Take out 26 Sundays, 35 playing days, and not less that 15 lost in traveling, and there remain 118 days to guarantee against rain and as leeway at the beginning and end of the season. Now, if the outside clubs want to secure games on any of these days they know the terms–if they don’t want to, why there is not a single person to beg of them. The League has a certain amount of time to dispose of or keep. The price is marked on the goods in plain figures, “$100 per game.” It is a one-price deal. If the purchasers don’t want the goods they can let them alone. But purchasers will remember that they can buy these goods, of this quality, at no other store. It is well enough settled that League clubs can draw better than outsiders... When managers of clubs like the Syracuse Stars and the Tecumsehs get down their books and see how much they made off League clubs per game under the guarantee system in 1876, and how much they made off each other in 1877, they will be apt to think twice before they follow the lead marked out for them by the Courier, viz: to “live without the League.” Chicago Tribune December 30, 1877 |
| Source | Chicago Tribune |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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