Clipping:The Big Four Detroit players stick together; no League interference in Boston deals
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| Date | Wednesday, November 14, 1888 |
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| Text | The League will not interfere. Indeed, it cannot. Its committee has been perfectly cognizant of the transaction, and knew about it before its consummation and gave its consent. It has not been known up to the present writing that an agent of the Boston Club visited Washington when the Detroit Club was there on the last trip, and was closeted there several hours with the players that Bosto9n wanted. The players agreed to come to Boston on the condition that Rowe, White, Richardson and Brouthers should not be separated. The consent of the players having been secured, all seemed easy. Then Pittsburg stepped up and wanted a finger in the pie. Therefore Boston had to drop Rowe. Pittsburg also wanted Ganzel, but this was more than it could secure. Now Rowe comes forward and declares that he will positively not play in Pittsburg next season under any conditions. He wants to come to Boston. Mr. Rowe is a very determined gentleman, and it will take a great deal more than mere words to make him change his mind. Pittsburg may have thought it was doing something great to step in the way it did and interfere with a deal that was not of Boston's, but of Detroit's players', seeking. These men had played together for years, and did not want to be separated. Boston was not anxious to get Rowe, and did not even contemplate securing him in the original deal. The Sporting Life November 14, 1888, quoting the Boston Herald ...the grand rush made by the Boston “Big Three,” in gathering in the pick of the Detroit Club's players, has stirred p a bitter feeling which is rapidly appearing on the surface. New York and Chicago were willing to keep hands off and give the weaker clubs a chance to secure some of these men, but Boston isn't built that way. Boston must be satisfied first, last and every time, and then the others can have what is left. It looks very much, therefore, that the coming League meeting will not be such a love feast as some people anticipate. The Sporting Life November 21, 1888 |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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