Clipping:Sale of players
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| Date | Wednesday, February 20, 1884 |
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| Text | A good deal has been said of late by some newspapers in a sort of uninformed way about the supposed evil of the sale of reserved players by clubs. As an instance, the Ft. Wayne Club is held up in its reception of $500 for the release of Scott. Now, if these men of the press would but take the pains to investigate the supposed evil (?) before condemning it, they would not appear so absurd in their arguments. As a matter of fact this supposed sale can never be accomplished without the consent of the player himself. The national agreement says that until after the lapse of ten days from the time the secretary of an association mails notices of a player's release to the clubs of his own association, and to the secretaries of all other associations, said released player shall be ineligible in contract. This is done to give every club in the national agreement compact an equal chance to bid for the released player's services, and any contract entered into previous to the lapsing of the necessary ten days would be void and worthless. Now, will some of these scribes sit down and try to figure out how a reserved player can be “sold” without ratifying the sale himself?, quoting the Cincinnati Commercial |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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