Clipping:Mike Kelly purportedly jumps to the NL
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| Date | Saturday, November 15, 1890 |
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| Text | In conversation with Kelly this afternoon he admitted that he had signed with his old management for next season, and that he held the contract in his pocket. He defended his action on several grounds. He claims that the Players' League violated its contract with him; that by refusing to distribute $20,000 prize money to the club winning the championship it violated one of the specific terms on which he was led to sign a Players' contract. … He also affirmed that he disliked to be the first man to go back on the players, and that he is not the first one to do so; but, as everybody was apparently scrambling to save himself, and there will not, in his opinion, be a Players' League next season, he did not propose to get left, and so he got under cover. Kelly's action has caused a most decided sensation about the hotel where the ball men are assembled. The Sporting Life November 15, 1890 Mike Kelly, who was reported to have signed a contract with the Boston League Club last week, indignantly denied the story. He said:-- “The story is false. I have not signed and never will as long as the Players' league exists. I was offered $15,000 to jump this summer with a five-year's contract for $25,000 and I would not desert the boys. I am too honorable to do that. The only event in which I would sign with the Boston Nationals is the demise of the Players' League. I was the last to sign the Brotherhood compact and I will be the last to break it.” The Sporting Life November 22, 1890 |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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