Clipping:Cleveland to buy Detroit's NL franchise
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| Date | Wednesday, October 24, 1888 |
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| Text | [editorial matter] It is now certain that the Detroit Club as a League club will be known no more after this season. The franchise and outfit of the club were offered some time ago to Cleveland, which had announced a strong desire to re-enter old League company. The tax for both franchise and the star players with their enormous salaries was far too heavy for the Cleveland Club, and so it was decided to split the matter, Cleveland to take the franchise and colt players and the star players to be sold to the hiest bidder. This was and is still the deal, the news of which was prematurely published and for which the Detroit bluff of going on in the League with colt players was but a thin disguise. The sale of the players was the business of the week in New York, under the hammer of auctioneer Stearns, details of which will be found in our news columns. The status of the Cleveland Club in the matter of the franchise is not so well defined. Nothing definite can be done in the premises until the meeting of the League, or until sufficient pledges are obtained to guarantee Cleveland's admission to the League in case the franchise is purchased. In the meantime the matter must remain in doubt, but the probability is that Cleveland will be found in League company next season and there is a bare chance that the scheduled games will be divided between the Forest City and the City of the Straits; at least that is a scheme the two clubs are said to have in mind. The Sporting Life October 24, 1888 [from Frank Brunell's column] Cleveland will pay Detroit more than $10,000 and take Getzein in addition to the eleen men assigned by the agreement between it and Detroit. Of the eleven, Campau and Sheffler cannot be sued, but Getzein, Gruber, Beatin, Sutcliffe, Wells, Nicholson, Duck, Twitchell, Knauss and Flanagain will be taken. The Sporting Life October 31, 1888 |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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