Clipping:Excluding players sows seeds of discord between players and capitalists
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| Date | Saturday, October 18, 1890 |
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| Text | [editorial matter] If consolidation fails the League will have injected in the Players' League the seed of discord. Where before all was trust and unity between the capitalists there will now be suspicion and contention, the players will probably never again have their former confidence in the integrity and sincerity of their partners—the capitalists—now that a disposition to “throw them down” has been revealed, and consequently their enthusiasm for and loyalty to the organization will be vastly affected and the tempter will find them even easier prey than heretofore. In other words, the Players' League has weakened its hold upon its own players and made it easy for the League to manipulate them should consolidation fail. This is the exact situation the Players' League now finds itself in, consequent upon its dallying with League diplomacy, consequent upon its dallying with League diplomacy, but especially for weakly permitting itself to be cajoled into excluding the players from representation upon the conference committee. From a League standpoint this was a proper move, because that organization never has and probably never will recognize the right of the player to a share in the government of the organization. But for the Players' League, whose fundamental doctrine is “player's rights,” and whose very name is a synonym for this underlying principle, to refuse the player representation at the very first really important conference in the history of the organization was perfectly absurd; indeed, it was the crowning blunder of the season, and one from which the Players' League, if it shall survive the present contest of wit and cunning with the League, will suffer in future in many ways. The Sporting Life October 18, 1890 The old tragedy of the injustice of the mater, the revolt of the subject, the bitter struggle and the subsequent victory of the sovereign power has been re-enacted. And this time the field of sport, the base ball diamond, has been the battle ground. The Sporting Life October 18, 1890 |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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