Clipping:The IA organizing convention
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| Date | Sunday, February 25, 1877 |
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| Text | [reporting on the IA convention of 2/20/1877] [N.B. Lewis Meacham was the delegate from the Fairbanks Club of Chicago] It is greatly to the credit of the gentlemen who met at Pittsburg that they did not descend to fanaticism, but confined themselves to doing what they could to better their own condition without any desire to follow out the paths made for them by such blinds guides as had neither money nor reputation at stake. In many respects the Convetion was a success, and, if more of the higher class of non-League professionals had been present, it would have been even more so. ... In the article relating to clubs, the Association did a graceful and clever thing by inserting a clause which prevents any club in the Association from playing or attempting to play any player expelled from another club “in this or any other Association,” clearly meaning that the Association would not hire or play any player expelled from the League. The gentleman who drew the clause explained its meaning in that way, and it was a credit to the Convention that it was adopted without dissent. ... One great evil from which the non-League professionals have suffered has been the too common practice of playing signing more than one contract. To avoid that in future, a clause was added to the section on contracts providing that if any player sign two contracts covering the same space of time he shall be expelled forthwith. In the same article it was provided that the Secretary of the Association shall notify the Secretary of the League of all contract made between Association clubs and players, the intention being of course to accept the League’s proffer or amity in shape of a resolution not to meddle with players under contract with outside clubs. |
| Source | Chicago Tribune |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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