Clipping:The NL refuses to give reasons for blacklisting players
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| Date | Sunday, January 15, 1882 |
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| Text | Some time since Secretary, Williams, of the American Association, wrote Mr. N. E. Young, Secretary of the National League, asking for a complete list of the men who were disqualified from playing in the League, together with the cause of disqualification. Mr. Young answered, giving the names of such players, but stating no offenses. Mr. Williams immediately wrote again, informing him that the American Constitution prevented Clubs of the Association from employing men expelled for certain offenses therein names.–To the last inquiry he has just received a reply, of which the following is the substance: “I must peremptorily decline to furnish any such data. The League harbors no ill will towards the men it has officially declared unworthy, and, in evidence thereof, declines directly or indirectly to aid any class of them. “It may well be that the men are all within the score of the ‘certain offenses’ of your constitution: if so, it would do you no good to know it. If perchance some of the men are not within the scope of your ‘certain offenses,’ we should feel we had wronged the men who were, by ‘giving them away.’” It is clear that the League are not satisfied with their unjust punishment of such men as Jones by refusing to allow him to play in any other club of their Association, but refuse to give such information as would allow him to obtain an engagement in some other club, by the implication contained in Mr. Young’s letter thata ll the men expelled by the League are expelled for offenses that would preclude our clubs from engaging them. This we know is not the fact in the Jones case, and there may be others. It is also very clear that the American Association need expect no assistance from the League in its efforts to keep bad men out of the profession. Still the American Association will stand by their promise to lend no encouragement to dishonest players. |
| Source | Cincinnati Commercial Tribune |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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