Clipping:An accurate explanation for high salaries
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| Date | Wednesday, July 8, 1885 |
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| Text | [from a column by “Veteran”] Why and how the clubs have allowed this evil [of inflated salaries] to grow to its present proportions is explained in a few words. As has been said before, the matter of financial success has not been the principal one; as a rule the stockholders of a club want a winning team and don't care whether they make a cent or not so long as they can win. They also get the idea if they can get certain players they can win and are willing to pay almost any salary for them, even more than they can afford, in the hope if they can get a winning team they can draw better, and make enough money to pay out. Right there is the delusion. Nobody can tell in the fall what team can win next summer, and thus it happens that expenses are increased that the receipts of the business cannot meet, and the club is bound to fall behind. In clubs that are run by individuals almost the same feeling prevails, and the greedy player is always ready to take advantage of this feeling on the part of the management, and generally feels that he is the man necessary to fill the breach, for who ever saw a ball player that did not think he was one of the best, if not the very best man in his position in the country? Added to this is his natural desire to get all he cn for his services. It is a great deal easier to win games in the fall and winter in the imagination and on paper than it is on the field during the next season, as many clubs have found to their cost. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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