Clipping:Early talk of reinstating expelled players
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| Date | Sunday, February 8, 1885 |
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| Text | The league and American association will probably be called upon at an early day to decide once for all whether or not players who jumped the reserve rule, like Dunlap and Shafer, or who violated their contracts and went to another club, like McCormick, Glasscock, Briody and Shaw, shall be reinstated into full and complete fellowship with the organization from which they seceded. This is evidence from the agitation now being made by the St. Louis people and press on behalf of the players now under contract with Mr. Lucas, who has recently been admitted to the league, most of whom, unfortunately, are now prevented from playing with any club party to the National agreement by reason of their being either reserve rule jumpers or contract breakers. The league at its annual meeting, in legislating upon the petition of Shaw, a contract breaker, announced as its policy, that players of the classes mentioned should be forever debarred from membership in that body. When Mr. Lucas was admitted to the league he was given to understand the position of the league to be as stated, and in this position he acquiesced. The pressure upon him from the St. Louis base ball public, reenforced by all of the principal papers of the city, will be so great that he may be compelled to ask that his reserve rule jumpers, like Dunlap and Shafer, may be reinstated. In that case, the league will again be called upon to define its policy. |
| Source | Boston Herald |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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