Clipping:A legal opinion on baseball contracts, blacklisting

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Date Tuesday, August 24, 1886
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A well-known Pittsburg attorney, who has made a close study of base-ball players’ contracts and has figured in suit growing out of them, says that they are illegal, and would not stand for a moment in any court in the land. As for blacklisting a player, which is practically issuing an injunction to prevent him from making a livelihood, it gives the victim the best kind of grounds for a suit for conspiracy against the club or association of clubs placing a ban upon him. St.

Source St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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