Clipping:Spalding proposes League surveillance of players
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| Date | Wednesday, August 4, 1886 |
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| Text | [from an interview of Spalding] I shall ask the clubs of the National League to jointly arrange with some detective agency to shadow throughout the League season every player of the National League, and submit a weekly report to President Young at Washington, embracing a statement of each player's habits and of his actions from day to day. We shall make the total abstinence provision an all important section of our club contracts with players, and if it shall be reported to President Young through our agents that a man has been drinking liquor of any kind; that he has been seen intoxicated, or that he has been in any way guilty of ungentlemanly or unprofessional conduct, the president of the League shall have the power to impose a fine not to exceed an amount to be determined by the League, and that a report shall be sent out by the president and secretary of all such fines imposed and the character of the offence, just as notices of contracts and releases are now forwarded each week to the different club presidents. We employ men at good salaries to play ball during six months in the year, and it is only fair to the League and to the public, as well as necessary to the good name and popularity of the National game that they conduct themselves as athletes and gentlemen. Those are my views, and I shall certainly take steps to have them adopted at the next business meeting of the League. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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