Clipping:The IA and players expelled by the NL
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| Date | Sunday, February 24, 1878 |
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| Text | [reporting on the IA convention] The joke of the matter is pretty carefully covered up, but it can be hunted out. Read the clause about one-third the way through the second section [of the constitution], as follows: “Or who has been expelled from this Association.”The only amendment to the section was to strike out the words “or any other” before the word Association. Last year it read “or who has been expelled from any club belonging to this or any other Association.” The effect is as plain as need be. Last year the Internationals pledged themselves to respect the expulsions of the League; this year they strike out that provision and give any of their clubs liberty to hire Devlin, Hall, Craver, Nichols, Bechtel, and Walker. It could hardly have been for any other purpose that this change was made, especially since it has been the constant boast of the promoters of the new enterprise that they would whitewash these men. They seem to have done it,... and now let them go before the country and see what the people think of them. Chicago Tribune February 24, 1878 This action was taken and this platform adopted three times, but just before the close of the meeting half a dozen of the best clubs in the party succeeded in bulldozing the majority by preparing to withdarw unless the enactment were repealed. Chicago Tribune March 3, 1878 ...when the New Bedfords, Lowells, Stars, Buffalos, Tecumsehs, and Rochesters threatened to withdraw from the Association if said was was not changed, and it was finally agreed to reconsider the matter, which was done, and a resolution was offered that no player expelled from this or any other Association shall be employed by this Association under penalty of expulsion of the club from the Association. The motion was carried by an overwhelming majority. Chicago Tribune March 3, 1878, quoting the Providence Sunday Dispatch |
| Source | Chicago Tribune |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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