Clipping:Reaction to the Brotherhood
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| Date | Wednesday, September 14, 1887 |
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| Text | [from Harry Palmer's column] The ball players of the National League are receiving good salaries, are worked but seven months in the year, and are asked to work not more than six nor less than three hours per day. Could they enter into any other business and earn half as much? All this talk of “ball players' wrongs” is rot and nonsense. They are lucky individuals, and they know it. They draw money when they want it; they live at the best hotels in the country and dress their wives in silks and diamonds. Could they do as much in any other calling? I think not. I have any number of friends in the profession—fellows I like personally and am glad to shake hands with, but I can say to them, one and all, that this sentimental rot will not work, and the sooner it is stopped the better. Play ball, lads, individually. Make all the brilliant plays on the field and at bat that you are capable of making and you will be able to draw better salaries and advance in the profession you have chosen. Join the Brotherhood and sympathize with the policy of that organization in trying to play upon public sympathy, and—you will get left. Take my word for it. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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