Clipping:Evolving opinion on blacklisted players
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| Date | Sunday, March 12, 1882 |
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| Text | [regarding the upcoming AA meeting] Many questions will come up that will require diplomacy, good judgment, tact, rather than impulse or revengeful feeling in their solution. Prominent among these questions is the recognition and employment of black-listed players. There is no mistake in the feeling of the general public on this question. It condemns it, and the association might as well accept the inevitable. There has been a decided revolution in the feeling of our bas ball patrons on this subject during the past two months, sober second though having taken the place of a revengeful feeling for the outrages and indignities suffered by the new Association at the hands of the League, in recognizing and engaging players signed with Association clubs. In our judgment, honesty on the part of the Association will be met half way by generosity and a spirit to do justice on the part of the League. Even if this be not so, two wrongs cannot make a right. The Philadelphia Item March 12, 1882 [reporting on the AA meeting] Upon the question of black-listed players, the Association wisely followed the counsel of The Item, and left them where they rightly belong, to the power that disbarred them. In the matter of players who have proven treacherous to the Association, the law will be invoked for justice. Thus, with clean skirts, above even a suspicion of wrong doing, the Association enters upon what gives every promise of a most successful career, and , by this success, will for the League in an alliance to protect itself. The Philadelphia Item March 19, 1882 |
| Source | Philadelphia Item |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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