Clipping:Minor league finances, salaries
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| Date | Wednesday, September 14, 1887 |
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| Text | [from Frank Brunell's column] [regarding the International League] Only Buffalo, Toronto and Syracuse will make any money this season, and some will lose a good deal. Most of the clubs cannot make ends meet... Salaries in the League run high. Necessary competition with League and Association clubs caused that. Salaries of $300 a month are paid, and $250 and $275 per month is paid to several men by several clubs, and one man in a Canadian club draws $2,000 for five months. Some of them started in a way that would mean suicide to a business man. Their expense account made an average attendance of 1,400 people necessary. No club has had such an attendance, and where it was necessary the result is obvious. The Sporting Life September 14, 1887 [from the Cleveland correspondent] It is said on excellent authority that the Oshkosh Club has paid Lovett $1,500 for two months this summer. He went there from Bridgeport, Conn., and will play in Oshkosh next season at a salary larger than that paid by the League clubs. A son of United States Sendator Sawyer, a ten millionaire, is behind the team and is willing to give money for glory. The ball players will take advantage of this readiness. Charley Morton, who managed Detroit in 1885, writes that most of his men–he is manager of the Des Moines Club–will go back there in 1888 and that salaries are as high as in the National League. The Philadelphia Times October 23, 1887 |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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