Clipping:A proposal to limit roster size

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Date Wednesday, October 31, 1888
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[from Frank Brunell's column] The League and Association would do a wise piece of business if at their next meetings they pass a law limiting the number of players to be contracted with by each club to eighteen before April 1, and the men under contract after May 15 to fourteen. Under the present way of doing business clubs like Boston, Philadelphia, New York and Chicago, each having an immense income, hire twenty or more players in the spring and keep them until they are useable or saleable. Clubs in towns like Cleveland are not able to do this. The expense is too great. Hence the necessity for such a rule.

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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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