Clipping:Pushback against Robert Ferguson; special contract excluding him from the reserve
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| Date | Monday, May 19, 1884 |
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| Text | The high-priced players of the New York Club kicked so vigorously against the engagement of the veteran Robert Ferguson to play second base on their nine that the directors of the Metropolitan Exhibition Company released him. Connor, Ewing, Gillespie and Welch were iwth Ferguson on the Troy nine, and the strict discipline they were then subjected to did not agree with them. Since they have joined the New York Club they have done pretty much as they pleased, and for this reason they did not relish the engagement of Ferguson. St. Louis Post-Dispatch May 19, 1884 Bob Ferguson denies ever having signed with the New York League Club. He was asked his terms and gave them. These were higher than expected and the engagement hung fire. At last, when urgent demands for his services came from Washington and Pittsburg, he went to Mr. Day and asked him what conclusion he had reached. Ferguson positively declined to sign with the club unless under a special contract, which ignored all reservation of his services after the close of the season, and which also required his services only as a player, and not as a captain or manager, neither of which positions he would take in the New York Club. Finally, when he found that there was a minority in the team who were opposed to him, he declined to enter the club, and at once signed as manager of the Pittsburg team for 1884, the entire control of the team being placed in his hands. St. Louis Post-Dispatch May 26, 1884 |
| Source | St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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