Clipping:Players prefer to play in the minors
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| Date | Wednesday, December 7, 1887 |
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| Text | [from the Millennium plan] Reservation must be granted the minor leagues by the big leagues as a matter of self-protection, aside from the toning-down effect it will have on salaries. The fact that players can get as much salary in a minor league, under less severe discipline and without reservation as they can in a big league, where the work is continuously exacting and reservation fro year to year certain, is certainly not calculated to easily land young players in big leagues or to make old players in big leagues anxious to retain their places therein, or at least indifferent thereto; and to just that extent is discipline loosened. The truth of this was illustrated during the past season when many players were made dissatisfied or indifferent by communications from old confreres who had gone into minor leagues descriptive of the “very soft snaps” they were enjoying; and is further illustrated at the present time when we see so many players who give every indication of future greatness resolutely refusing the most flattering offers from big clubs, preferring to cast their lot with the minor leagues where the pay is nearly equal, and their work less likely to be overshadowed. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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