Clipping:Sharsig on contract breakers
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| Date | Monday, January 13, 1890 |
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| Text | Manager Sharsig, in reply to a question as to whether he was making any effort to get Stovey, Bierbauer, Larkin, Cross and Weyhing back, said: “No, sir. These men, I understand, have signed Players’ League contracts, and as men of principle, I expect them to stick to their agreement. A contract is a contract, according to my way of looking at it, and I would not have a contract jumper on my team. A man who will jump a contract is not honest, and I want nothing to do with him. I would not think of such a thing as bribing a player to jump a contract, and certain League clubs who are in that business just now will be sorry for their actions before they are much older. I do think Stovey, Bierbauer, Larkin, Cross and Weyhing treated me very shabbily by deserting the Athletic Club, but since they have signed contracts to play elsewhere they shall live up to thiir contracts so far as I am concerned. If either of these men would offer to come back I would not take them unless they first obtained an honorable release from the Players’ League clubs with whom they have signed for next year. It would not be honorable on my part to sign a man knowing that he had previously signed another contract, and I propose to do nothing of the kind. The public will have very little use for clubs or players who are in the bribing or contract-breaking business. I went into base ball with clean hands, and mean to leave it some time in the distant future with a good record. “Ever since my connection with the club the Athletics have played honest ball and employed honest players, and so long as I am connected with them they will follow in that line of business. When the time comes that we must bribe players to jump contracts and employ contract-jumpers, then I will quit the business forever. |
| Source | The Philadelphia Evening Item |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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