Clipping:Umpire fines and player discipline
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| Date | Tuesday, August 31, 1886 |
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| Text | I [Chadwick] asked Bradley why it was he and other American Association umpires allowed so many players of the American club nines to dispute their decisions with such impunity as they did, and his reply was to the effect that fining them would not stop their kicking. He quoted Comiskey of the St. Louis team as an example. “Comiskey told me,” Bradley said, “that I might go on and fine him just as much as I damned please, but that the fines would not be paid.” Bradley further remarked that when umpires fined players the club to which the punished player belonged would not back up the umpire in inflicting the penalty, but went against him by efforts to remove him from this position, and to save themselves umpires had to stop fining players, except in very aggravated cases. This being the existing condition of things it is not to be wondered at that there is so much kicking against decisions of umpres as there is. St. Louis Post-Dispatch August 31, 1886 the League to apportion St. Louis players; potential to induce defections from the AA [reporting on the NL special meeting of 8/26/1886] The most important action taken during the meeting...was the adoption of a resolution providing for the appointment of a committee, which shall virtually control the questions of the release and employment of players; the apportionment of players in case of the disbandment or expulsion, and to purchase for the League the franchise of any club, offered for sale or contracts with players so offered, and to play the club or players in question in any city they may deem best, such games counting as championship games. … [This resolution] will do away with any such deals as that consummated between the Buffalo and Detroit clubs of last year, and will tighten the lines of the League power os an organization, to the end of securing an equal division of playing strength as well as better work, and better discipline among the clubs. The Sporting Life September 1, 1886 If Pittsburg wants to enter the League, that body will now be in a position, with the aid of the new committee, to offer that club extra inducements in the way of strengthening its team. There are a few men in the St. Louis team who would just about suit Horace Phillips' notion. The Sporting Life September 1, 1886 The new League committee will enable the League to transfer such St. Louis players as may be wanted to the successor of the St. Louis Club, if that club should not go on next season. For instance, if Pittsburg should go into the League this committee could transfer such players as Pittsburg may deem necessary to strengthen herself; see? It's a shrewd move, and one cannot help but admire the League for the careful, far-seeing and practical way in which they do business. The Sporting Life September 1, 1886 |
| Source | St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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