Clipping:David Reid comes out in favor of reinstating the blacklisted players
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| Date | Saturday, March 14, 1885 |
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| Text | [from the columns of “Ixion”] That Mr. Lucas feels intensely sore over the refusal of the League to reinstate his men is but natural and logical. They overlooked his offenses and then declined to receive the men whom he was the cause of having blacklisted. To the general public this may seem strange: to Mr. Lucas and to those who understand League methods and despotism it is not at all so. They work in their own way–that is the two or three magnates who control its destinies–and they do as they choose, without, indeed, consulting some of the less important members of the body. Mr. Spaulding, Mr. Day and Mr. Soden have things as they wish them and it is a despotism. The League bitterly follows any offender against its slightest rules and at the same time would not hesitate to entice any man it needed to break contract or act dishonorably with an outside club. Their tardy and reluctant recognition of the American Association was an act of self-protection–self-preservation, in fact–and, if necessary, they would take any similar steps which would be to their advantage. “The end justifies the means” is their motto, and in everything they do the perception of the old ruler of the League, Mr. Hulbert, is evidenced. St. |
| Source | St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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