Clipping:Selling players a minor league business model
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| Date | Saturday, July 12, 1890 |
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| Text | [from the Pittsburgh correspondent] [from an interview of W. B. Howell, formerly a stockholder in the Wheeling club] When I was with the Wheeling Club that was our entire aim—to develop some good man and realize on him. I don't think I am going too far when I say that some minor league clubs took pride in turning out promising men for the big leagues. I sold Delehanty to Philadelphia for $1800, and you can bet this sum of money came in very handy. There wasn't a club in the Tri-State that didn't dispose of one or two men to fast company. The Sporting Life July 12, 1890 [from R. M. Larner's column] President Young says the financial distress prevailing in so many of the minor leagues is due to the falling off in the sale of players. In former years a minor league could develop two or three good players and dispose of them to the League for a sum sufficient to tide them over many difficulties. There has been a decided stagnation in the base ball market and but few profitable deals have been made. There was a great howl made about buying and selling players, and there was much talk about the League growing fat off of the minor leagues. As a matter of fact the League pays from five to ten times as much to the minor leagues for desirable players as the minor leagues pay to the National League for certain privileges and protection under the National Agreement. The Sporting Life July 19, 1890 |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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