Clipping:A scheme for player salary rates
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| Date | Thursday, April 4, 1878 |
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| Text | [On September 1] a meeting will be held in Chicago, at which Mr. Young, secretary, will present a statement giving the batting and fielding averages of every player in the League. The League will fix upon a standard of mean average of batting and fielding, each class of fielders, catchers, pitchers, baseman and short-stops, and fielders. [sic] Every player who comes up to that standard will be considered first class; those falling below it, second class. All players who have not played in League nines to be ranked as second class without regard to their record. The League will also agree upon a certain fixed rate of compensation for each class of fielders, to be the same as in all League clubs; and Mr. Pettit says the tendency is to a material reduction in salaries next year–probably $1,400 at the outside for first-class pitchers, and a corresponding reduction for other fielders. A difference of from $100 to $200 will be made between first and second-class players in the same position. |
| Source | Indianapolis Journal |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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