Clipping:The new contract
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| Date | Wednesday, November 23, 1887 |
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| Text | [reporting on the NL meeting 11/21] The League committee, Rogers, Day and Spalding, and the Brotherhood committee, Ward, Hanlon and Brouthers, met in conference on Friday and went over the new form of contract presented by the Brotherhood in detail. The League then assembled to hear the joint committee, and in short order ratified the new form with but few alterations, the most important change being made in the clause relative to the distribution of players in the event of a club disbanding. This was changed entirely the moment the League showed the Brotherhood the absolute necessity of controlling the players in such a contingency. The new contract drawn up by the Brotherhood’s counsel and adopted proves to be a much more equitable agreement than the old one. The principal changes made affect sections 6, 7, 8, 15 16 and 18. By the terms of players may not be fined at the discretion of the managers for certain offenses, a graded limit being named for repeated offenses. Neither can a club reserve players for the ensuing season at $1,000, as was previously the case, but clubs must now pay reserved players the salary named in the contract. Players are also exempted from the charges of fifty cents per day for traveling expenses. In the future, if a club disbands, resigns or is expelled the players of such club will not be compelled to go to another club unless that club will pay the same salaries as the club resigning, disbanding or expelled. Uniforms are no longer to be purchased at the expense of the players, excepting that $30 may be deducted from the players’ salaries for the first outfit. In section 6 the word “drunkenness” was stricken out as being an undefinable term, and the section made to read as below. The change is expected to be productive of much good, and will prevent men drinking while off duty. Players may be “docked” a pro rata amount of their pay for time lost by illness from natural causes. If a player is injured in the performance of duty and thus incapacitated his pay shall go on just the same, but he may be released; such release must, however, be absolute and unconditional. Any violation of contract by the managers may be held as proper ground for dissolution of contract if their players desire it. Another change provides for a fine of $50 for neglect of duty and does away with suspension. The Brotherhood favored the plan of sending all fines to the secretary of the League, but they agreed to allow this to be struck out. [The text of the contract follows. Notable features include excluding outside documents from incorporation by reference; and contractually defining the reserve.] |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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