Clipping:Minor league rights

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Date Wednesday, September 14, 1887
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[from Frank Brunell's column] I found the International managers ready to join any combination to protect minor leagues from the rapacity of the major ones. … It is a fact that of the twenty players or so in the International clubs who are fit for faster company there is not one that has not had six offers, and many have had a dozen. It is a matter of open comment among the players that Philadelphia has fixed this man, New yOrk that fellow and Brooklyn these men, while Washington will get A. and Baltimore B. These club names don't “go” except as material for suppositious cases. Some of them might through. … It's tough, and the sooner we come down to an all-round equity we'll be better off. But the all-round equity can never be in a general reserve rule. That would pinch the players, because no one supposes Hamilton, Ont., able to pay as hgh wages to ball players as New York and Chicago. The equity will have to come in remuneration for the man taken from the small by the large club.

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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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