Clipping:The black list and war to the knife
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| Date | Saturday, October 7, 1882 |
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| Text | President McKnight of the American Association has been interviewed recently. He says that if the League should resort to dishonorable means to prevent his Association from honorably engaging League players there would be a bitter war. He adds: “The League is now endeavoring to engage in underhand work towards us, and next season it will be war to the knife. We will ask for no quarter. The American clubs have made money this season, notwithstanding the opposition of the League. Unless we are fairly dealt with, we will engage any player who desires to enter the Association and should prove acceptable as a player, whether he is blacklisted by the League or not. We can and will pay as high salaries as the League, and our rules are not so tyrannical as theirs, which is the reason why so many League players desire to engage with us. The League is at liberty to engage our players if it can, and we expect the same privilege respecting theirs. At the recent League meeting there was adopted a rule to be announced privately to all the players who are desired to sign where they at present belong, to the effect that League players who refuse to sign with the clubs in which they are present and accept contracts with the American Association will be blacklisted in the League. In this way they hope to drive some of the players who have already joined the American clubs to break their contracts. They further took measures for the purpose of using old, trumped-up and trivial charges against players, threatening to blacklist them on these charges unless they would give up their American engagements. |
| Source | New York Clipper |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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