Clipping:Rising salaries 5
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| Date | Sunday, March 18, 1888 |
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| Text | With the exception of one or two there is not a club in the Association whose salary list for next season is not greatly in excess of what it has been in past years. It is true one or two of the clubs have expended large sums in securing the best of talent, noticeably the Brooklyns, yet President Byrne says that his salary list will exceed that of any previous year by some $12,000. Mr. Stern in figuring upon the expenses of the local club for the season, claims that it will require at least $10,000 more to run the team than it did last year. The Athletic Club has also been very liberal with its players in regard to salaries and from a reliable source it is learned that the salary of the Baltimore Club has tripled in the past five years. From this it can plainly be seen where the responsibility for the high tariff rests. The managers are in part to blame for this unhealthy state of affairs and they should be censured for submitting to extortion and injudicious competition among themselves. Now that the public is called upon to foot the additional expense, they are beginning to realize the true status of affairs and are equitably dividing the blame between players and managers. It is true the managers hold the power in their right to reserve the men, who are to a certain extent at their mercy, but they do not deem it advisable as a rule, to coerce players. By agreeing to the demands of their men managers maintain that they will do their work more faithfully and cheerfully. By the heavy additional expense that has been shouldered upon a number of the Association clubs they will have a hard struggle to realize even a small profit and the sum that at best they can clear would hardly justify them in so large an outlay of capital. The heads of clubs must necessarily take all the risks while the players incur none. Yet they draw their large salaries whether there are fifty or a thousand spectators present. If players salaries continue to increase in ration with past years it is only a question of time that we shall have a seventy-five cent tariff, or possibly more. “The line must be drawn” said President Byrne recently, “at that, too, at no distant date on exorbitant salaries. |
| Source | Cincinnati Commercial Gazette |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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