Clipping:Jack Rowe on the Players' League

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Date	Wednesday, November 6, 1889
Text	[reporting on the PL meeting of 11/5/1889] Jack Rowe of Pittsburgh was asked if it was the Brotherhood movement that culminated yesterday that induced White and himself to go to Pittsburgh when they did and play the season out. “Yes, that was it,” he said. “We got a long letter from John Ward, and, upon consideration, determined to go to Pittsburgh. After I had been there a few days a reporter asked me how I liked the place. I think I told him I liked it as well as Oshkosh, Kalamazoo, or some place of that sort. We were forced to play against our will there, and told Nimick so. We wanted to get a release, but all the satisfaction we could get from Stearns of Detroit was “Play in Pittsburgh or get off the earth.” The League has brought this action on itself. Imagine a case like our own. We were not permitted, on account of a rule distorted to suit the purposes of the magnates, to act like free men and play where we chose. I feel like a manumitted slave.
Source	Philadelphia Item
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Submitted by	Richard Hershberger
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