Clipping:The black list to keep salaries down

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Date Sunday, March 13, 1881
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[reporting on the League special meeting, purportedly quoting Hulbert] There were certain players whose connections with the professional had always been those of disorganizers and degeneraters. These men were always at work trying their best to injure the game. When the time for signing same they showed their teeth. They held off from day to day, at the same time opening negotiations with other cities citing the various sums they had been offered, announcing their fondness for said cities and the great desire they had to play in them. Being men of recognized ability, they succeeded in running their terms up very high. Not content with this mode of procedure, they talk with other players, cautioning them about signing, and telling them that all they wanted to do was to hold off and the Clubs would come to their terms. Every Club in the country had men of this sort, some more than others. Now that there were so many professionals, and their ranks were being yearly increased, the League could afford to dispense with such men. They were the relics of olden times, and should be shelved. He had conversed with some of the delegates, and his plan was to draw up a list of said players and all agree not to hire them for another year. Then they could take a hand at some other calling and earn their dollar or two a day., quoting the Buffalo Express

Source Cincinnati Enquirer
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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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