Clipping:Base ball slavery trade
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| Date | Sunday, December 5, 1886 |
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| Text | If ever an evil needed remedying it certainly is the . When a man once becomes a professional player he has no control over himself until he becomes useless. He is owned body and soul by some of the base ball organizations and can only play when they designate. Take the Burns case. That man is blacklisted simply because he made other arrangements than those satisfactory to the club management. Had it been earlier in the season Knowlton, of the same club, would have been sold to a club he did not want to go with, and only escaped through the time expiring for which the Newark Club had any further control over him. He is now censured by friends of the club for his ingratitude for not going where the club wanted to sell him. So it is with many other players. There is a club in this vicinity that holds a man who would not stay with it one hour if he could get away without being blacklisted or sold. Bse ball needs a general overhauling, and the more law it gets the better it will be for the players., quoting the New York Mail and Express |
| Source | Philadelphia Times |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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