Clipping:Retaining the reserve; a rumor of dissolving the tripartite agreement
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| Date | Monday, September 10, 1883 |
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| Text | The American Association at its special meeting at Pittsburg, Sept. 1st, concluded to stick by the reserve rule. The League will undoubtedly follow suit. The players, however, need not despair, as a good many loopholes are still open for breaking it, and a great many things may happen between now and December. It has leaked out that the League and Association calculate to uphold the reserve rule, by combining perfidious treachery with boundless greed. In order to hold the players whose work is making fortunes for the managers at nominal salaries, these honorable managers propose to break faith with their allies, the Northwester League and Inter-State Association. The clubs of these two bodies contain some fine players, and in order to stop the clamor of those weaker League and Association clubs for new material it is said to have been determined to dissolve the alliance, so that the desirable players of the allies may be stolen or coaxed away. If these reports be true, we plainly tell the “bosses,” that they will commit a most egregious blunder. Might does not make right, and it is a poor rule that won't work both ways. The Northwestern League directly, and the Inter-State Association indirectly, are parties to the tripartite agreement, and should have something to say about its abrogation. If the two senior bodies disregard their obligations, and break faith, what right have they to demand rigid respect for contracts by the players over whom they have established a sort of protectorate? The Sporting Life September 10, 1883 The Inter-State clubs of the American Alliance have been roused up to quite a pitch of indignation at the fact of their treatment at the hands of the parent Association in withdrawing from them the protection of the reserve rule. They see plainly enough that the move has been made to rob them of their best players, thereby breaking them up for next season's work. Fortunately the Brooklyn Club has taken time by the forelock, and engaged the nucleus of their team for 1884, but it will go hard with the Trenton, Reading, Pottsville, and Wilmington clubs. The Sporting Life September 10, 1883 |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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