Clipping:Negotiating the Players League contract
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| Date | Wednesday, November 13, 1889 |
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| Text | [reporting the Players League meeting 11/6/1889] The whole business of the morning session was a discussion of the form of contract to be signed by the players. The capitalists seemed to want some guarantee that they would be able to keep their players longer than a year, and it was finally decided to make a contract for three years. … ...the old National League contract was read over and its most objectionable features, notably the salary limit clause and the reserve rules stricken out. With these omissions and one or two minor additions the new contract will be drafted after the general form of the old one. The Sporting Life November 13, 1889 [reporting the Players League meeting 11/8/1889] The Committee on Contract reported a paper which was thoroughly satisfactory to the delegates. It abolishes the technical word “reserve,” and provides for a three years’ service. In other words, each player will sign a three years’ contract outright. In the place of the “ten days notice” clause in the National League contract, there is a provision which allows a club to dispense with a player only at the end of the season, and only after five of the eight directors of the club with which he is under contract have decided that his services are no longer required. No classification will be allowed. The Philadelphia Item November 8, 1889 |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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