Clipping:Bancroft accuses the League of trying to induce a player to revolve
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| Date | Saturday, March 30, 1878 |
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| Text | [a letter from Frank Bancroft:] I wish you would let the public know that the Milwaukees are trying every means in their power to induce Geo. W. Bradley to break his contract with the New Bedfords, in which event Mr. Bradley will be expelled from the Association, and under the International rules no Association club can play a nine employing an expelled player. Brilliant prospects for Bradley and the Milwaukees if they succeed by big offers in inducing him to sell his future prospects. Don’t think he will do it, but it certainly is not square for any club to advise him to, and it is to the credit of Harry Wright and Ben Douglas that they condemn it. New York Clipper March 30, 1878 [N.B. compare with Bancroft managing Detroit in 1882 and the Dasher Troy affair.] A correspondent, writing from Milwaukee, says: “The Milwaukees have failed to secure Bradley, and, in consequence, there is much dissatisfaction expressed. The management sent Bradley $100 by telegraph in response to a dispatch from him saying he could secure his release from New Bedford for $50. He failed to secure the desired release, because, it is said, someone else had a finger in the pie–someone who is intensely interested in the ill-success of one or more of the League clubs. New York Clipper April 6, 1878 |
| Source | New York Clipper |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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