Clipping:The NL signs an AA player without going through waivers
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| Date | Friday, August 23, 1889 |
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| Text | Once more there is a war cloud between the League and its humble ally, the American Association, due, as usual, to a slight imposed upon the junior organization by the stiff-necked old League. The latest row is similar in its aspect to the Latham case as it relates to the national Agreement waive rule. It appears that pitcher Ed Daily, of the Brooklyn Club, because his club was in arrears to him for salary, entered into negotiations with the New York League Club, and on Monday last left the Brooklyn Club and entered the service of the New York League club without the usual claim to his services having been waived by the other Association clubs, which, under the National Agreement, would have been indispensable even when a player has been regularly released. The matter, following so closely upon the sharp Latham trick, has caused the greatest irritation in Association circles and a big row is among the possibilities judging from the following despatch: “Louisville, Aug. 20.--Should Daily, the released Brooklyn pitcher, play with the New York National League Club before the ten days expires in which the Association clubs are given to waive claim to Daily a bitter war will follow, and it may result in the disruption of the National Agreement. 'We intend to make a warm fight over the matter,' said Mr. Phelps. 'We have never broken the National Agreement, despite the rumors of our being about to do so, and we do not intend to do so. I cannot see how the National League can afford to do so, and I do not think they will do anything of the kind. The Daily case is very clear. No player in the American Association can sign with a club of any other association until the other clubs of the American Association have waived all claims to his services and they are allowed ten days' notice of his release. I have notified President Young of the purpose of the Association to contest the right of the New York Club to sign Pitcher Daily, and do not think there will be any trouble. If the matter is not adjusted, well—there'll be trouble.' The Association, it is thought, is anxious for the National League to play Daily, as it will only furnish an excuse for the former to join hands with the Brotherhood.” Daily has played in two games with New York against Boston, in one of which he pitched part of the game. After the conference at Louisville on Baltimore's admission Barnie and Phelps were asked point blank if it were probable that there would be an amalgamation of the Brotherhood and the American Association. To the query both gentlemen replied firmly in the negative, and said they were entertaining no ideas, neither was it probable, although they admitted having been approached by a Brotherhood agent, who endeavored to lay a basis for such a consolidation. Both gentlemen, however, admitted in a guarded sort of way that the League wasn't treating the Association right. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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