Clipping:Boston tries to buy Glasscock, is offered the St. Louis franchise
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| Date | Thursday, September 2, 1886 |
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| Text | President Soden of the Boston club has authorized the publication of the following history of his efforts to secure Glasscock: Boston’s efforts to secure Glasscock put the work of all other clubs in the shade. These efforts have been made by a special agent, clothed with unlimited powers, by correspondence between President Soden and other League Presidents, and by financial offers that far exceeded any presented by any other League club, or any amount heretofore offered, as far as known, for the services of any base-ball player. One proposition made by President Soden to the St. Louis management was a cash offer of $10,000 for such five players of the St. Louis club as the Boston directors might select. This offer was rejected by the St. Louis people, and in its place came on from St. Louis to President Soden: That for $15,000 the St. Louis club would dispose of its players and League franchise to the Boston club, on condition that the Boston club would give a bond that it sould fulfill all of the obligations then existing between the St. Louis club and the League. This proposition was at once rejected by the Boston directors because the charter of the Boston Club prohibits the directors from locating a base ball team in any other city than Boston; and because the proposition was too preposterous to be considered for a moment by business men. To accept the St. Louis proposition would be to entail a loss of from $5,000 to $8,000, in addition to the $15,000 to be paid for the franchise. President Soden wrote to President Spalding of the Chicago Club, advising the calling of a meeting of the League and authorizing him, if such a meeting was held, to state that the League might designate any sum of money which the members thereof thought that boston ought to pay the St. Louis club for the services of Glasscock, and it might also designate the amount of salary to pay Glasscock, and the Boston club would pay the sums agreed upon. The meeting was held and the proposition of the Boston club made. The result of the deliberations of the meeting was the appointment of the committee to apportion the players. St. Louis Post-Dispatch September 2, 1886 [See SLPD 9/10/1886 for a quote from The Sporting Life disputing this account.] |
| Source | St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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