Clipping:A proposal for a minor league convention to reduce salaries
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| Date | Wednesday, August 22, 1888 |
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| Text | [from the New Orleans columnist “Creole”] Every league in the country is paying higher salaries than its weakest club can stand, whereas all the leagues should be run upon a basis of what its weakest clubs can afford. There is a general disposition in all leagues now to reduce salaries and the minors are about to take the initiative. They have it in their own hands to reduce salaries to a living basis, and if they will only assemble in convention and agree upon a scale of salaries, the players will have no other alternative but to accept. There are hundreds of young players coming up every season and there will be no trouble in getting all they want at their own figures. High salaries have had their inning and it is now the stockholders' time at bat. If the minors fail to take the salary problem in hand at once, they will vote themselves the most royal band of “producers” in the land. The Sporting Life August 22, 1888 [quoting an unidentified “southern man interested in base ball”] If we were to assemble in a convention we could easily arrange a plan that would reduce salaries at least 50 per cent. below what we are now paying, and thus reduce them to a point that would not only make all our clubs self-sustaining, but would also make base ball an investment for those who are spending their money in it. A salary of $75 to $125 a month for players should be the very outside in salaries. We have merely to meet and all agree that we will not exceed such a limit, and the players have no alternative but to accept. Cleveland Plain Dealer August 29, 1888, quoting the Sporting Times |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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