Clipping:The danger of rising salaries
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| Date | Wednesday, February 23, 1887 |
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| Text | [from George Williams’ column][discussing the Kelly deal] My own opinion is that though Boston may have doen well for themselves, they have hurt base ball very much. The time has come to cry halt or the business will be ruined; not only in the League, but in the American Association as well. In Boston, a club giving a fifty-cent game, pays $10,000 for a single player, and in St. Louis Von der Ahe agreed to pay $5,000 for Ramsey [N.B. This deal didn’t go through.] to play in a twenty-five cent game, and no doubt will give the player $3,000 salary. Now where is this to stop? It is bad enough to pay big money for the release of a player, but this salary business is getting to be a little too much of a goodthing, and I cannot see how captial invested in base all clubs is going to get a fair return if men can secure such enormous salaries. To pay sixteen men nearly $40,000 for seventy home games is udertaking too much risk, and the time will come when managers will see that they are giving all the plums to the players who run no risk and get all the profits. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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