Clipping:A proposal for a minor league draft 2
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| Date | Wednesday, December 7, 1887 |
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| Text | [from the Millennium plan] The minor leagues having received the inestimable privileges of reservation and representation, and the major leagues having thus, in a measure, cu off their sources of supply of young blood, some compensation must be accorded the latter by the former. … A draft of requisition should be made for a certain limited number of players by the League and Association jointly each fall, and after the first season under this plan no player whatever should be taken from any minor league during the playing season, and not more than two, three or four players should be taken from any one minor club at one time. For each player so taken the two big leagues, as a pool, should pay a certain fixed sum to the league,not the club, from which said player is taken, or else give in exchange a League or Association player who has fallen below the standard. Such a system would do away with all the present expensive, wasteful and harmful methods of replenishing teams; the drafted player could be made to pay for their own advancement instead of being boosted at the clubs' expense. The minor leagues would get a fair equivalent for their players and the major leagues be protected from extortion and expensive experiments, getting a fair pick of just what they need and no more. … As not individual managers, but the League and Association jointly, would select the needed men, there would be no individual competition for the players, and prices would fall to a level commensurate with the ability of the drafted men. Indeed, the sorry spectacle of half-developed and unscrupulous players playing off anxious managers against each other to the point of ridiculousness would be witnessed no more and double contract deals would be impossible. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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