Clipping:Cleveland players jump to the UA
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| Date | Saturday, August 9, 1884 |
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| Text | The Cincinnati Union Club yesterday closed contracts with three of the finest and best-known ball-players in the profession, and will hereafter present for the patronage of the Cincinnati public a team which in playing ability is second to none in the country, the great Lucas team of St. Louis not being excepted. The three important accessions to the Cincinnati Union ranks are McCormick, Briody and Glasscock, of the Cleveland League team. These three players, who are without superiors in their respective positions, were met in Grand Rapids, Mach., where their club was booked to play yesterday, by a representative of the Cincinnati Union Club, and after a short consultation affixed their signatures to contracts to finish out the season of 1884 here, and also to play with the same team in 1885. … There was a horde of hungry managers of other base-ball clubs on the track of these players, trying to secure their services, but to no purpose. Representatives of National agreements clubs seeing that they were likely to go to the Union Association, did their best to prevent them. … The three valuable men who have jumped the Cleveland League team and joined the Cincinnati Unions say that they will probably be black-listed. They also say, however, that this is no bugbear tot hem, and that they, like many other first-class players, now members of the League and American clubs, will not in future be handicapped by the obnoxious reserve rules. … It is also known that the management of the Cleveland Club offered to sell the release of these three players to other clubs for a good round sum of money. The players were averse to being sold like slaves in bondage, and reasoned that if there was any money in such a sale they were the ones that ought to get it. It was for this reason that they determined to come to Cincinnati. |
| Source | Cincinnati Enquirer |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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