Clipping:The failure of the NA to deal with revolvers
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| Date | Saturday, March 12, 1870 |
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| Text | We had hoped that the Convention would have adopted Mr. Chadwick’s suggestion, and have amended the Constitution of the National Association so as to have given clubs the power to punish “revolvers.” But the controlling power in the late Convention were too busy in playing their certain “little games” to do anything so well calculated to advance the welfare of base ball! ... Mr. Chadwick informs us that he had prepared a code of rules governing the action of professionals in their engagements with clubs, which he did not present in his report simply because the whole section referring to professional play were voted down by the professional club delegates. The result of this action by professional clubs is that they are left at the mercy of these “revolvers,” there being no law bearing upon revolving either in the rules of the game or in the Constitution of the National Association. The only remedy the clubs have in the matter is to agree not to play in any game with a club that takes into their nine any player who has broken his written engagement to another club. |
| Source | National Chronicle |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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