Clipping:Sharing gate receipts versus the guarantee
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| Date | Wednesday, November 24, 1886 |
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| Text | [from the editorial column] The adoption of the guarantee, indeed, may be considered a step backward by the League. It was one of the cardinal principles of the founders of that institution, has been one of the main elements of its past success, and is, indeed, the only proper method of conducting any enterprise depending upon gate receipts for support. So long as base ball endures it will be as impossible to equalize matters so that every club may have an equally productive territory to draw upon, as it would be to have the wealth of the world equally divided among its inhabitants. A base ball league should be practically a a cooperative institution. Two, three or four clubs, however rich and powerful, cannot make a successful combination alone. They must have other clubs to play with, and if these clubs, although they hail from poorer and smaller cities, are sufficiently strong in playing qualities to make them drawing cards, there is no reason why they should not reap a portion of the benefit of their drawing power. That they do not draw so well at home is altogether owing tho the fact that they are not so fortunately located and has nothing to do with the merits of the case. This was the principle of the founders of the League and this principle has been firmly maintained until at last the constantly growing policy of consuming greed has overborne it, to the regret of every unselfish lover of base ball. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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