Clipping:The AA and blacklisted players
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| Date | Saturday, March 11, 1882 |
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| Text | The members of the Association have naturally felt indignant at the course pursued by the Detroit and Boston League Clubs in enticing players to break their written contracts with the Athletic and Cincinnati Clubs, and by way of resenting this action some of the most hot-tempered of them proposed to make the black-listed players of the League eligible for service in Association clubs. This course would not only not trouble the League in the least, but would simply have the effect of cutting off all the profitable games the Association teams would otherwise be likely to have with the League clubs. The only right way to do is to bring the law to bear on the players who broke their contracts,by having them prohibited from playing in League cities of States where the clubs whose players were taken away from them are located. To open the door to all the black-listed players of the League would simply be to offer a premium to insubordination and other evils the American Association clubs desire to get rid of as much as the League clubs do. We are opposed to any cringing whatever on their part to the League, but we also desire to see the American Association placed on record as opposed alike to the engagement of kicker in their ranks as to crooked knaves. |
| Source | New York Clipper |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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