Clipping:The Metropolitans neglect to notify the League of a signing
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| Date | Saturday, October 22, 1881 |
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| Text | Professional players and those engaging them should study the contract rules of the League before they sign documents either for service to a club or for the engagement of a player. Here is a case in point: Muldoon of the Metropolitans signed a contract to play with the Metropolitan Club, and received advance-money, for which he gave a written receipt. But the management failed to notify Secretary Young as required by the law, and consequently when the Cleveland manager found this out he secured Muldoon and notified the secretary in time. The law, as applicable to League Alliance clubs as well as the regular clubs of the League, is as follows: “Each club that is a party hereto shall, upon making a contract with a player, immediately notify the Secretary of the National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, such notice to be in writing and signed by the contracting club and the player; and, in the absence of such notice to such officer, the player shall be deemed to be free from such contract obligation. |
| Source | New York Clipper |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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