Clipping:Burdock on the Brotherhood
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| Date | Wednesday, November 2, 1887 |
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| Text | Burdock, of the Boston Club, was interviewed last week, and he had this to say about what the Brotherhood intended to do:--”The players as yet are not sufficiently organized to fight the National League. It will take time to get them in a position in which they can insist upon their rights. But the day is near at hand when they will be in that position. We are satisfied with the reserve rule and the salaries paid, but we are not at all satisfied with the form of contract now in used by the managers. No player who is a member of the Brotherhood of base Ball Players will ever again sign that contract. We must and will have a new form. The present contract won't stand law. It is too one-sided and gives the player no show. As soon as a man signs it he binds himself for life to a club and becomes a mere chattel so long as he depends upon base ball as a means of livelihood. The managers can do with him as they please. If they don't want him to play ball he can't, and must remain idle forever. The manifest injustice of this appears when it is understood that in such an event he doesn't not receive a salary. The managers of a club can lay a players off without pay and even, under the present ironclad contracts, prevent him from signing with another club that might be glad to avail itself of his services. That means that they have it in their power to take the bread and butt out of our families' mouths. |
| Source | The Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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