Clipping:The effect of personal contracts; Chadwick's commentary
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| Date | Wednesday, October 13, 1886 |
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| Text | ...if personal contracts are to supersede regular base ball contracts the reserve rule might just as well be abolished... The Sporting Life October 13, 1886 The officials of the Metropolitan Exhibition Company, through the medium of the personal contract system of engaging players, which they have recently carried into practical effect, have introduced an element of discord into the ranks of the various professional associations comprising the clubs belonging to the National Agreement, which will require very earnest and careful legislation at the coming conventions of the National League and American Association to remove. From the very year in which the first national professional association was organized, up to the period of the establishment of the protective system embodied in the National Agreement, the most difficult problem the professional legislators had to solve was that of preventing the engagement of players by clubs for service during an ensuing year before the close of the existing base ball season. Even from the time of the organization of the National League this trouble was a leading obstacle in the path of progress to the successful establishment of an honorable plan of running the business of stock company professional base ball clubs. The League itself was the outcome of a fight for the possession of players illegally engaged before the close of an existing season; and the evil of seducing player from their club allegiance was the cause of all the disturbances, bickerings, dishonest, and ill will which arose out of the Union Association movement of three year ago. The efforts to reform this abuse which culminated in the establishment of the protective system of the National Agreement was supposed to have ended all difficulty in the matter, but the firebrand which the New York Club has just thrown into the field has renewed all the old troubles, and if something is not done to abate the difficulty the advantages of the National Agreement and the beneficial effect it has thus far had in making the professional business run smoothly will all be sacrificed. The Sporting Life October 20, 1886, quoting the Brooklyn Eagle of 10/10/1886 |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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