Clipping:How side contracts to break the $2,000 limit operate
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| Date | Sunday, November 25, 1888 |
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| Text | The nature of the private contracts differed. In some cases, as in the case of Dunlap's engagement with the Detroits, there was a private contract between Dunlap and a man identified with the club by which the player bound himself to this man for a term of years for the sum of $4,000 a year. All that was required of Dunlap was that he should play ball for the Detroit club during the term of his engagement. He signed the regular $2,000 contract and was paid at that rate by the club. The man with whom he executed the private contract made up the difference. The aggregate sum paid to Dunlap on both the official and side contract all came out of the Detroit club's treasury. Here in Chicago, in making up the excess above the limit, Mr. Spalding would execute a variety of contracts. He would first have the regular limit contract, and then a private contract between himself, personally, and the player, to pay so much additional in any event, and a third, binding himself for a further sum in the event of the club winning the pennant, usually termed a championship contract. Over and above these agreements there existed the famous “booze contract,” which provided that the player should receive a certain additional sum for abstaining from the us of intoxicating liquors during the base-ball season. |
| Source | Chicago Tribune |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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