Clipping:The Brotherhood and a critique of player sales
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Date | Sunday, September 25, 1887 |
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Text | The Chicago Times is championing the players’ cause. It predicts trouble unless the brotherhood is recognized. It says: “As a matter of fact there ought to be. The players have only asked for what the managers, were they disposed to be half fair, would grant without the asking. The demands they made upon the League were natural and in the interest of justice. The main one was that the sale of players be stopped and that chattel slavery be abolished in base ball as it was in the cotton fields of Mississippi and Louisiana. In this demand every honest lover of base ball will join and it will be a bad day for the managers if they insist on ignoring the players. |
Source | Philadelphia Times |
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Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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