Clipping:Larry Corcoran under contract all along

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Date Monday, January 7, 1884
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[from an interview of Spalding] “Corcoran has signed a regular contract, and will play with the Chicago League Club next season; that is final and determined. You see, we have a special rule in the League constitution which compels a player to sign a regular League contract within thirty days of having accepted an offer from a club by mail or telegraph. Corcoran’s time was up yesterday, and if he had not signed he would have certainly been expelled. You see his case was not under the reserve rule at all, but under an accepted offer, which was valid, and under which he could have been held by common law.” St.

Source St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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