Clipping:Abolishing the ten day rule
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| Date | Wednesday, August 26, 1885 |
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| Text | [reporting on the AA special meeting of 8/20] The meeting by resolution abolished the ten-day's rule outright, so far as the American Association is concerned, by refusing to respect it from the date of the meeting. Of course this was a violation of the National Agreement, but the American Association states that it considers that the League first violated the National Agreement by reinstating the reserve jumpers and that thus its provisions were no longer binding upon the American Association except at pleasure. The Sporting Life August 26, 1885 The abrogation of the ten-day rule by the National League, following so closely upon the same action by the American Association at its special meeting not long since, was a sensible move. It had outlived its usefulness, and its provisions had been rendered nugatory by the practices of the present day. When it was adopted such a thing as buying a player's release was almost unknown, and the intention was, when a man was released, to give everybody a bona fide chance to engage him if they wanted to, but as it works now, if a manager buys a player's release and gets his promise before doing so that he will sign with him when his ten days are up, it simply puts the player in the way of a terrible temptation to act dishonorably. The rule was continually evaded and should have been repealed long ago. It any limit is fixed at all in the future it should be a very strict one, for if a manager wants a man bad enough to buy his release he wants him immediately, and if he is willing to pay for him he ought to have him. The Sporting Life September 9, 1885 |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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