Clipping:A condemnation of player sales, the reserve
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| Date | Wednesday, June 6, 1888 |
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| Text | [from Frank Brunell's column] ...Clarkson, for the money he cost the Chicago Club, did good service and earned many times more than the amount he cost the Chicago Club. Therefore, what right had the Chicago Club to sell his release to the Boston Club for $10,000? The only excuse for the inauguration of the sales system was that of money invested in making a player. Said A- -, the selling magnate:--”This man cost me $500 or $1,000 to make him what he is. If you will reimburse me you can have him.” B - -, the buying magnate, paid the price and took the man. These were the original outlines of a player deal. Gradually the system has grown into broad and brutal investment for a raise in price, as hogs, houses and hops are hold and sold. Perhaps in the future the system will run into marginal sales. It will if it swells as it is swelling and has swollen in the past. … Clarkson was ready-made when Chicago got him. He cost an original nothing, outside a large salary for a short season. He earned it. And every season he earned every dollar he drew from the Chicago Club, and was his own man, and had a legal and moral right, had he chosen to exercise it, to go to Boston whenever he chose to do so, his contract with Chicago being fulfilled. Base ball law and the law of the land are very antagonistic. The sooner they are dovetailed the better it will be for the game. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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