Clipping:Joe Leggett absconds

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Date Sunday, January 6, 1878
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Joe Leggett, seventeen years ago the crack catcher of the country, last week absconded with several thousand dollars collected from Brooklyn liquor dealers in payment for their licenses. Chicago Tribune January 6, 1878, quoting the New York Mercury

a player under contract playing Sunday ball

There is a chance for cavil, but hardly one for argument, in the fact that Geer, who is announced to play in Cincinnati next season is playing Sunday games in San Francisco this winter. One paper has an idea that he should be expelled from the League for this, and it is true that the League law is very strict upon the subject. If the matter were made the subject of complaint, it would be held that neither the League, nor any member thereof, could equitably claim to control the services of Geer, or any other player, until the beginning of the championship season, at which time his contract goes into effect. Chicago Tribune January 6, 1878

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