Clipping:The modified percentage plan adopted
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| Date | Wednesday, November 23, 1887 |
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| Text | [reporting on the NL meeting 11/16 et seq] This [the percentage system] was the real bone of contention of the meeting, and the rest of the session was spent in discussing it without any result being arrived at. Mr. Rogers made an able and exhaustive two-hours argument against percentage; Mr. Stearns pleaded in favor, and all present took a hand in the discussion. … The League resumed its session on Thursday morning at 10 o'clock, the debate on the percentage question being continued. Mr. Grey, of Detroit, replied to Col. Rogers, and all the other delegates expressed their views upon the question, and then Detroit's amendment providing for a $200 guarantee and 30 per cent, was put to the vote and beaten. Compromises were then in order, and the following one was agreed upon and passed: “Each club shall have exclusive control of its own grounds, but the home club shall pay to the visiting club for each championship game played by it on said grounds 25 per cent. of the receipts for general admission; provided, however, that when such 25 per centum shall be less than $150 the home club shall pay to the visiting club the sum of $150.” The vote on this was seven to one, Philadelphia turning in for it, and Boston alone voting against it. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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