Clipping:The scramble for free agents
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| Date | Thursday, August 21, 1884 |
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| Text | The Baltimore Unions claim that Pinckney, who played with the Clevelands yesterday, is a contract breaker, he having signed a contract to play with them the balance of the season. Such is the case, but the circumstances show that Pinckney has acted honorably in the matter, as far as lay in his power. It appears that nearly four weeks ago Manager Hackett of the Clevelands opened negotiations with Pinckney, who was the playing with the Peoria Club, and the result was that the latter agreed to give Hackett the chance to hire him if the Peorias disbanded. When this event took place Hackett and Pinckney again negotiated. Hackett telegraphing his terms and Pinckney accepting them by telegraph. This, under the national agreement, answers the same purpose as a written contract, and players can be held. As Pinckney went to Chicago to meet Hackett, he was met at the depot, it is said, by Manager Henderson of the Baltimore Unions, who used such influence over Pinckney that the latter was not permitted to see Hackett at all, but was hurried off to Baltimore, where he was induced to sign a contract with the Unions. Pinckney was ignorant, he claims, of the national agreement rule which makes a telegraphic acceptance of terms binding, but in the course of two or three days he learned of that fact. He at once notified Manager Henderson that he should be obliged to leave his employ in a few days, and yesterday when he arrived here [Boston] with the Baltimores and found, that the Clevelands were here. He had an interview with Manager Hackett and expressed a willingness to abide by his agreement to play with the Clevelands, and this he has done. While the Herald has no sympathy whatever with contract breakers, and will denounce them wherever found, the above facts are given in justice to Pinckney, who appears to have shown a desire to act fairly and squarely in the premises. St., quoting the Boston Herald |
| Source | St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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