Clipping:Players League solidarity; NL inducing players to break contracts
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| Date | Wednesday, December 18, 1889 |
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| Text | [editorial matter] Defections have not been so numerous or so important as the League counted upon, and with the exception of Clarkson, the men whom it has induced to violate their Brotherhood pledges, and in some instances regular contracts, have not been either in character, playing reputation, or intelligence of such calibre as to make their defection a serious loss to the Brotherhood, nor a material gain to the League. The latter seems to be getting at the purchasable men very quickly, and it now only remains to be seen how many more of this kind there are in the players' ranks. But no matter how great the number of deserters, the development of the new league will not be hindered very materially thereby, as the mistake of the League in permanently crippling the Association affords a means of making good defections, without which it is quite certain that the Brotherhood scheme would have collapsed ere this. The Sporting Life December 18, 1889 [editorial matter] The Players' League, to its credit be it said, has so far refrained from approaching any contracted players whatever, and this policy will, if maintained, gain for it the approbation of the general public, which does not as a mass sympathize to any marked degree with the reserve rule, nor bother itself about the details of its application. With this public the side which is continually figuring th e newspapers as having induced this, that and the other player to break his contract must certainly lose caste, and the other side, which just now happens to be the Players' League, gain accordingly. What is to be apprehended, however, is that the new league may be also driven by unwise counsel into the contract-breaking business with a view to retaliation. If that should happen a carnival for contract breakers will doubtless set in, and base ball receive a set-back in the estimation of the decent and honest lovers and patrons of the game from which it may take years to recover. The Sporting Life December 18, 1889 |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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