Clipping:The history of the Day Resolution
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| Date | Wednesday, June 13, 1888 |
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| Text | [from a long history of the UA war by Mills] While the annual meeting of the League , at which the National Agreement was ratified by that body, was in session in Washington in November, 1883, we learned that emissaries of the wreckers were in negotiation with certain of our reserved players, and that one, at least, had agreed to serve a Union club for the season of 1884. In the course of the discussion which ensued I urged, in substance, that, unless the League should take some action forbidding such a course, the reserving club might, in the emergencies of the playing season, be tempted to induce such deserting reserved player to return to its team by the offer of a higher salary than the Union club was paying him, and thus, in effect, reward such player for having deserted the reserving club, and so encourage, instead of discouraging, similar desertions; and that the only way to prevent such action, consistently with our reserve rule, was to debar the reserving club, in the event of its reserved player contracting and playing with a Union club, from thereafter employing him. The prohibition thus suggested by me met the approval of our convention, but it was then suggested by the long-headed president of the New York Club, Mr. John B. Day, that inasmuch as we could not know until the following spring which of our reserved players would actually play with Union clubs, the better course to take would be to give notice of the substance of our intended action at that meeting—so that our reserved players might have due notice—but to defer the actual enactment of such a law to our spring meeting, when we would be in a better position to judge if the proposed enactment fully covered the ground, and could amend it if necessary. This course met the unanimous approval of cur convention. … The “Day Resolution” was subsequently adopted by both [the AA and NWL]. |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
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