Clipping:A player grievance for being fined for illness

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Date Wednesday, May 29, 1889
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[reporting the Brotherhood meeting of 5/19/1889] Henry Boyle, of the Indianapolis Club, was the only player to present a grievance. The League rules say that a player can be laid off without pay by reason of sickness from natural causes. Boyle was sick and was laid off under these rules, to which he does not object. But the Indianapolis Club not only deducted his salary, but it fined him $100 for being sick, which he claims they had no right to do. He was suffering from fever and ague, and presented a physician's certificate and testimony of players that he was unable to report. The Brotherhood will present this case to the Indianapolis Club and insist that the $100 be refunded.

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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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