Clipping:Hulbert on the Troy expulsion
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| Date | Sunday, December 25, 1881 |
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| Text | With a view of ascertaining the probable attitude of the League in the event of the American Association expelling Troy, who first signed with the Athletics of Philadelphia, and then broke his contract and joined the Detroit team, the Enquirer correspondent to-day hunted up President Hulbert, and asked him what would be done in the premises. He replied: “I am not aware of the necessity of doing any thing, for I have no information on the subject other than newspaper reports, which, as you know, are not always to be relied on in the matter of private business affairs. I have no knowledge, officially, of the engagement of Troy any where but by the Detroit Club. The League does not recognize the existence of any Association of ball clubs excepting itself and the League Alliance. If the Athletic Club should expel Troy for alleged breach of contract, I don't see what the League would have to do with it. The only question the League has to consider in regard to players is their relations to the Clubs of the League and those entitled to the League's protection by virtue of their membership in the League Alliance. The Athletic Club not being a member of the Alliance, has no claims on the League. Cincinnati Enquirer December 25, 1881 [McKnight describing correspondence from Hulbert] Upon receipt of the telegram from Hulbert about the Troy matter, quoted above, I wrote him that Troy would have to be expelled under our rules, and reminding him of the pledge just quoted [that the NL would respect AA expulsions], said “I could hardly believe he intended to break it so completely.” He answered, “For years the League has proferred the use of its machinery for the recording and enforcement of players' contract to any and all Ball Clubs that chose to avail themselves of the conditions offered. Annually we have published in our book the form of agreement to be signed by Clubs that desired to avail themselves of the privilege. Not the slightest trouble has ever arisen between any League Club and League Alliance Club. … John Troy, by all our laws, is a player under contract with the Detroit Club, and no Club on earth can inflict any penalty on John Troy that the Chicago or any other Club in the League will recognize except it be inflicted by the Detroit Club or by the League. You don't treat me fairly in your quotations from a letter of mine to you. Troy was not an expelled player when contracted with by Detroit. If you should now expel Troy, would my remarked apply? I mean, remarks about Leagues, not employing the players disqualified by the American Association. Not much.” &c. Cincinnati Enquirer January 1, 1882 [McKnight's commentary on the NL action] I suppose the League expected to aggravate us so by this Troy outrage that we would commence hiring their black-listed and expelled players for revenge, and thus get the press and public down on us. We will do nothing of the kind. We can get plenty of good players, and we propose to be governed by honorable rules, if others are not. I shall not make the stereotyped “appeal to the public,” for I suppose the sympathy of the people in League cities will remain with that organization. The average attendant of base-ball games does not care whether the President of his Club is a man whom he would not trust with his pocket-book... Cincinnati Enquirer January 1, 1882 |
| Source | Cincinnati Enquirer |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
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