Clipping:Hulbert reprimands Paul Hines
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| Date | Sunday, November 11, 1877 |
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| Text | [a letter from Hulbert to Paul Hines dated July 29, 1877] This club will not consent to pay first-class prices for third-rate play. We have the right to expect of you that you will fully maintain your reputation for skill at the bat, in the field and in base-running. You have fallen off amazingly in all respects, and you show an indifference to the interest of your club which would warrent us in dismissing you. If you desire to retain your position with us, you must wake up and attend to your business in first-class shape. I hereby warn you that unless you do improve in respect to the matters to which I have in the letter called your attention, you will be dismissed and your pay stopped. The official record of your play this season is as follows–all League games: Games, 30; runs, 19; base-hits, 29. Last year, 64 games, 62 runs, 101 base-hits. You see, therefore, that you are not playing much more than half as well as last year. Yet you draw full pay, and, at the same time, rate as last year. You must not expect that this will continue. I tell you frankly, the club will not stand it. In the first 15 games this year you made 15 runs and 12 base-hits. You are not trying to play. You father would not like to have you home with half your salary lost. St. Louis Globe-Democrat November 11, 1877 |
| Source | St. Louis Globe-Democrat |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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