Clipping:The Brotherhood meets, wants a new contract

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Date Wednesday, September 7, 1887
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[reporting the Brotherhood meeting of 8/28/1887] ...It was the sense of the convention that a new form of contract is necessary. Each point of the contracts was carefully one over, and features were suggested to be incorporated in the new contracts.

One of the clauses which the Brotherhood will insist on having in the new contracts will allow a player to be released unconditionally, so that he can go where he pleases, and in case a club disbands, the players under contract should be permitted to go where they like, the disbandment of the club being equivalent to a release, so as to render impossible in the future cases like those of the disbanded Kansas City and St. Louis clubs, where the players were peddled out to the highest bidders. With regard to the “reserve” rule, most of the delegates thought that it should stand, with a few minor changes.

A committee of three, consisting of Hanlon, Irwin and Ward, was appointed, with full power to act in the matter. This committee will at once ask the League managers to meet them at an early date that a contract, satisfactory to both sides, may be drawn up. If the League should refuse to meet the Brotherhood, then the latter will draw up what it considers a just contract and submit it to the League.

...and finally some action was taken in regard to intemperance. The meeting was unanimous in its desire to assist the League to rid itself of the drinking ball players, but in a businesslike way. Heretofore players have been fined $200 or $300 at a time for drinking, but with no effect. The plan proposed by the Brotherhood is to fine a player $25 for the first offense, $50 for the second, $100 for the third. Then, if he is not man enough to stop drinking for the remainder of the season, he should be suspended as a way of getting rid of him.

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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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