Clipping:A definition and condemnation of 'revolving'
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| Date | Sunday, February 20, 1870 |
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| Text | [There are] certain rumors we have heard in regard to several proposed transfers of players from one club to another, in which regular engagements and contracts are to be broken. Now, the man who breaks a written engagement with a club in order to better his position pecuniarily by joining another club, is simply a fool, not to say an innate scamp, and should be discountenanced by every club as the class which are ready to sell games where opportunity offers. Men have a perfect right to better their condition legitimately by leaving one club for another at the close of the season. This can be done honorably, as [a] number of players we could name, have done it; but what we object to, is the miserable system of “revolving” which consists simply of this very style of breaking regularly made engagements. Let all of this class be hooted out the ball fields, for there is not one of them fit to be trusted. They only lack opportunities to sell a club for a fifty-dollar bill. |
| Source | New York Sunday Mercury |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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