Clipping:Blocking clubs from selling out
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| Date | Wednesday, September 30, 1885 |
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| Text | [from an interview of McKnight] I asked Mr. McKnight about the exact meaning of the agreement entered into by the clubs of the two leading associations that they would not engage, prior to Oct. 20, any player released by a club of either body, explaining that many people thought it unnecessarily hard on players released. The gentleman explained that general legislation of this kind must be for the good of the whole, even though a few individuals suffer. This agreement was made so that there could be no possibility of any club selling out to another, and was the only feasible way to prevent it. If a club should sell out to, and be absorbed by, another, a whole team of players would be thrown out of employment, while under this arrangement only a few players will be held out. It was well known that Providence and Buffalo were dickering to dispose of their players. Had they been permitted to do so an equal number of players, considered inferior, would have been discharged by the purchasing clubs. But then look at the predicament of the League had those clubs given up. There was our principal reason for this agreement. The people who have large amounts of money invested in these clubs must act like business men and protect their interests. They cannot look to the interest of each individual player and lose money by so doing. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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