Clipping:Flaws in the Players League structure
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
 |
| Add a Clipping |
| Date | Wednesday, November 27, 1889 |
|---|---|
| Text | [editorial matter] The National Player's League is a fact, a substantial reality, and not even the most hide-bound partizans can now ignore its existence. It's a very important factor in base ball now; whether for good or evil, for but a season or for years, time alone can tell. It means to crush the National League if possible, or failing that to at least establish itself as a rival on equal footing, and its success or failure depends, next to the public, on itself. As has been repeatedly pointed out in these columns its foundation is defective. Its financial system is not likely to produce satisfactory results, and therefore not conducive to longevity, neither is its method of government calculated to tide it safely over the many complications and obstacles it may encounter. Its percentage system is fairer than that of the League, and the inducements held out for the best efforts of the players novel and effective, but the provisions for disaster are vitally defective and the method of division of profits not such as to insure the permanency of the League and the development of individual clubs or the game. It will also find its executive machinery too cumbersome and totally inadequate to an effective administration. But experience is a good teacher, and if but the honest, steadfast endeavor be there, the will to succeed, and more important of all, if public patronage be liberally accorded, everything can be altered to advantage and properly arranged in time. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
| Tags | |
| Warning | |
| Comment | Edit with form to add a comment |
| Query | Edit with form to add a query |
| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
Comments
<comments voting="Plus" />