Clipping:Ward on player sales
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| Date | October 1888 |
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| Text | In justice to the principle of reservation, it should be added that, originally, it contemplated no such mercenary application, but that this feature has been tacked on or rather developed by the cupidity of the club managers. The justification offered, that the sale can not be effectuated, without the consent of the player himself, is no justification at all. A man who is dissatisfied with a club, or who, for any reason, wishes to make a change, may be willing to consent to almost anything if that consent is the only way in which he can accomplish the change. So also, the assertion that the player is always benefited by an increase of salary, though not necessarily true, would only prove the injustice of his former reservation, by showing that the selling club had paid him a less salary than he was really worth. The reserve rule was made that a club might retain its players, not that it might sell the. It never contemplated the creation of such a right, and its prostitution to such a vile purpose, more than anything else, has served to bring the rule itself into disrepute. It is wrong in principle, a reflection on the framers of the rule, an insult to decent players and a dishonor to our national sport. “Our National Game” by John Montgomery Ward, The Cosmopolitan Vol V No 6, October 1888, pp. |
| Source | “Our National Game by John Montgomery Ward, The Cosmopolitan Vol V No 6 |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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