Clipping:Prescience about the Players League
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| Date | Wednesday, November 6, 1889 |
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| Text | [from W. I Harris] “The Players' National League,” and that is what Ward tells me it will be called, sounds very pretty, doesn't it? How long will it live? Well, that depends. One year at any rate, and what then if the capitalists, who are behind it, don't receive fat dividends? I asked a capitalist to-day how long he thought it would take the League to fill the places of the men who are preparing to desert their employers. He though, perhaps, two years, certainly three at most. When pressed, he admitted that when the moment arrived there wouldn't be a great deal of money for either players' league or national League. What is to become of the players when the capitalists got enough and draw out? “Oh,”was the reply, “There'll be money made for a couple of years anyhow, and then, well, that's too far off to speculate about now.” There you have it. The men who are going into this venture are not philanthropists. Very few of them have any sympathy with the poor, abused base ball “slaves.” They are in it for the money and when it ceases to be profitable the players may shift for themselves. I wish the boys success with all my heart, but somehow I cannot bring myself to believe that they will get there. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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