Clipping:The reserve rule preserved
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| Date | Sunday, August 19, 1883 |
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| Text | All doubt concerning the Reserve Rule has at last been removed, and this week we can authoritatively announce that it will continue in force. While deprecating this and believing that it will not be to the best interest of our home clubs, it must be confessed that those upholding the rule use good arguments. The latest convert to the rule is Manager Barnie, of Baltimore. His conversion was brought about by his experience with the players of the defunct Merritt club. “If,” says Barnie, “players of the calibre of those of the Merritt club ask and obtain such outrageously high salaries, what would be the limit of first-class players when thrown on the market? It would make professional ball playing in most of our cities an impossibility and would bankrupt half of the managers that imagine they can pay any salary.” Thus is will be seen the players have virtually defeated themselves, and by their greediness and exorbitant demands scared away their best friends. The Athletic club has wheeled into line for the reserve rule, and in the American Association to-day there is only one club–the St. Louis–that asks for its abolition. The (Philadephia) Sunday Item August 19, 1883 It is said that the disbanding of the Merritt Club was a lucky thing for the friends of the reserve rule, as it has given them a chance to point out the enormous increase in the salaries of the disbanded players. This they point to as an indication of what managers may expect if the reserve rule should be broken. The Sporting Life August 20, 1883 |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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