Clipping:Players' League deserters
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| Date | Saturday, April 26, 1890 |
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| Text | The only difference of opinion between the Players' National League people over the so-called deserters, was as to the wisdom of allowing the League to go out, bribe and sign a man, turn him into the contractual corral with the label “sacred and safe” upon him. Then the bribers chipped into a pool and went out looking for a fresh man. It didn't seem like fighting sense, this stand of the Players' National league, yet it was hung to and served the purpose. The deserters who came back came back at their original salaries, and each loses money by their return. This was accepted as an evidence of repentance, which it undoubtedly was. We lost a few men which we might easily have retaken on account of what the base ball utilitarian calls”squeamishness,” but the Boston, St. Louis and Holyoke crowds said that the public would not forget honor even in base ball. There was nothing from the ball-playing side to excuse the men who sought to wreck the Players' National League in its early weaker form. There was a business argument in favor of taking the most talented of the Judases back. It was put in words thus:-- “You weaken the other fellows and strengthen yourselves.” Finally it was left to the players, and they settled their own closest question wisely. For my own part I do not believe that one other of the men who broke agreements and contracts will ever be reinstated. It requires a unanimous vote of the board of directors—sixteen--to reinstate, and there are one or two votes that will never be cast in favor of such an action. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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