Clipping:Black-listed players and the AA
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| Date | Saturday, March 18, 1882 |
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| Text | [reporting on the AA meeting of 3/13-3/14/1882] In the revision of the constitution, O. P. Caylor moved to substitute Section 9o f Article 6 by the following: “any baseball-0player, manager or umpire who shall, after March 12, 1882, be expelled, suspended or black-listed by the National League or College Association of Baseball-players may appeal from the said disability to the directors of the American Association. The said board, at its next subsequent session, shall hear evidence from said expelled, suspended or black-listed player as to the justice or injustice done to said players, and if upon such investigation it shall appear to the entire satisfaction of the said board of directors that the said expulsion, suspension or black-listing of the said player shall have been unjust and unmerited, said player shall be declared eligible as an honorable player in the American Association, with full privileges of that body. If such injustice be not proven, then the disability imposed upon the play by said League or College Association shall be affirmed by the American Association. No player who shall be resting under any sentence of expulsion or suspension, or be on any so-called black list on March 15, 1882, shall be permitted to play with any American Association club until such disability be removed by the power that imposed it.” D. L. Reid [of St. Louis Club] offered to amend by striking out the date and making the matter one of general consideration for players coming under the rule as it existed. A very warm discussion followed, in which Cincinnati, St. Louis and Pittsburg had it pro and con. Finally a vote was put and it resulted in a defeat of the amendv ment, Pittsburg and St. Louis making a very decided stand against accepting the League's black-list. |
| Source | New York Clipper |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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