Clipping:Umpire salary negotiations
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| Date | Wednesday, November 23, 1887 |
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| Text | One of the events of the [League] meeting was the signing of Umpires Doesher and Gaffney by the Association late Wednesday night. They would hav3epreferred the League, but could come to no terms, although they had a talk on the subject with President Young after the meeting had adjourned. Mr. Young's reply, in substance, was that they should sign where they could get the most money. Doesher was hot at his and told Gaffney that he had a good notion to sign with the Association. A friend of the latter heard the remark and slipped away on the hunt for Byrne to strike while the iron was hot. Byrne was, however, absent and Barnie was asked to hunt him up. When the Bald Eagle of Baltimore learned what the object was, he said, “Why, I'll sign him myself.” Mr. Abell was called and the two called Doescher, yanked him out of the hotel and around the corner, and in 15 minutes had his signature. When the party returned to the hotel after Gaffney the latter had disappeared, having gone to some theatre. Near midnight he appeared again at the hotel, and was then seized and induced to sign. All this was going on right under the eyes of the League people, and yet not a soul tumbled to the true state of affairs, and the facts were not divulged until the following day. Both men receive over $2,500 apiece. An agent has been sent by Mr. Byrne to Hartford to sign another League umpire, Daniels, and by this time he, too, has probably been added to the Association staff. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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