Clipping:A register of available players
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| Date | Sunday, January 13, 1878 |
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| Text | There has always been a lack of some convenient means of communication between ball-players who want engagements and ball clubs wanting players. The best way, if it were possible, would be to have a central office where both clubs and players could apply for their needs. This will not be possible until a man in whom every club and player has confidence takes up the idea. Meanwhile, The Tribune offers its services, so far as they may serve, to bring the employer and employee into communication. From this time until the opening of the playing season (May 1, or even later) each issue of The Sunday Tribune will contain in its Base-Ball Department a register of players who desire engagements for 1878, and also of clubs, or associations, which have need of players. The notices by players should be something like the following which refer to players who wish to contract: FIELDER AND CHANGE CATCHER—A PLAYER who has been in League and International teams, and has a good record as a batter and fielder, wants an engagement for 1878. would prefer the West; could captain a team. Address ONE, care Sporting Department Chicago Tribune SECOND BASEMAN—A PLAYER WHO WAS WITH a Western club last year would like an offer for 1878; has permission to refer to his late club. Address TWO, care Sporting Department Chicago Tribune. Each player and club can express best for themselves their wants and fitness. The player can do as he likes about giving his name; many object to it. The Tribune will receive and forward all letters addressed as above. The charge for inserting the name of a club or a player in the register will be $5 [reduced to $3 the next week], which must be sent with the description. The notice will be allows to stand, and will be published in every Sunday's paper until the applicant orders it withdrawn, or until May 1, or even later, if the applicant wishes. It is proper to say that The Sunday Tribune has a larger circulation among the ball clubs and ball-players of the Western and Northwestern States than any other paper. Nearly every club keeps it on file, and the player who wishes to make himself known to the best clubs can find no way more sure than to insert his name in the register referred to. Clubs in the Northwest, or in any other section, will have no difficulty in getting into correspondence with the best disengaged players in the way referred to. |
| Source | Chicago Tribune |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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