Clipping:Signing players later than in past years
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Date | Sunday, August 26, 1877 |
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Text | Last season at this time there had been forty-two new contracts made for this season, and by November sixty-three contracts had been signed. This, when compared with the three lonesome contracts on the season’s record, shows that the players are for the most part without any prospect of getting a chance to earn any base-ball money next season. No offers are being made, as it is evident that either the League will give up the ghost on account of its heavy losses, or else its clubs will engage cheaper players, and leave the high-priced old-timers out in the cold. Chicago Tribune August 26, 1877, quoting the (unspecified) |
Source | Chicago Tribune |
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Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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