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| Date | Wednesday, February 25, 1885 |
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| Text | After many vexatious delays the club has secured a five-years' lease of the block bounded by Congress, Harrison, Throop, and Loomis strees. The block has a frontage of 660 feet on Congress street and 400 feet on Loomis street, and is at present unoccupied save for a little one-story cottage, which will be removed from its present site within the next few days. The Van Buren street cars pass within a block of the grounds, and the Madison and Ogden avenue cars within five blocks. Chicago Tribune February 25, 1885 \ the effect of the UA on player discipline In 1884 all of the League and American clubs found it difficult, if not impossible, to bring any strong coercive laws to bear on their players in the way of penalties for slighted field services or for acts of insubordination; the stumbling block in the way of the application of strict club rules in punishing violations thereof being the existence of the rival Union Association, which kept its doors wide open for the admission of all discontented League or American players of note who desire to join its ranks. The result of having such an association to go to in case of need was demoralizing in the extreme on the clubs of the League and American Association, the latter finding it difficult to discipline their men, when occasion required, without running the risk of obliging them to kick out of the traces and got o clubs where they could do better, and also act pretty much as they pleased. This year all this is changed, and in the place of the lax observance of club rules for temperance habits and the nullification of laws to enforce team work in the ranks, all the League and American clubs now have the power to enforce every rule, and to insist upon the carrying out of every club law exacted for the preservation of club discipline, and of every rule made to support the system of team work in the field. St. Louis Post-Dispatch February 28, 1885 |
| Source | Chicago Tribune |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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