Clipping:Playing an expelled player

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Date Wednesday, October 1, 1879
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A Boston special to a Chicago paper says: “In an interview with Harry Wright to-day as to the standing of the League Clubs, he admitted that if the League rules were enforced there are only two Clubs in the League (Boston and Cleveland), all others having forfeited their membership under Art. 5, Sec. 8, providing that no game shall be played with a Club employing a player expelled from the League. The trouble is with McKinnon, who played in the Rochesters till July 3d, and was expelled for signing contracts this season with the Hop Biters and Troys. He played with the former, or was employed by it, when games were had with the Albanys, Holyokes, Worcesters and Nationals. The Chicagos played the Nationals; then the Buffalos played the Albanys; the Cincinnatis the Holyokes; the Troys the Albanys, and the Providence the Hoyokes. The Bostons also played the Worcesters; but the latter Club sent an affidavit to the League Board that they didn't know of the McKinnon affair at the time, and the Board decided that they would not be held to the rule. Wright thinks the rules are explicit enough to rule out all the Club expect Cleveland and Boston, if any one pushes the matter.” But that won't do, Harry. In a conversation which took place in Harry Wright's store in Boston on the 16th of last June, Harry, in the presence of Jim White and the Enquirer reporter, held that the McKennon expulsion was all bosh, and advocated the policy of ignoring it entirely in playing games with non-League Clubs.

Source Cincinnati Enquirer
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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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