Clipping:The reserve clause as an option
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| Date | Wednesday, January 15, 1890 |
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| Text | It is not generally thought among base ball experts that the National League club owners themselves ever regarded “reserve” as an option until soon after the players announced their intention of leaving the old League, Col. John I Rogers discovered that the word could possibly be construed to mean an agreement to renew the contract for another year. A clear idea of what reservation signified can be formed from an editorial written by Francis C. Richter in The Sporting Life of Jan. 30, 1889, months before the present controversy arose. Mr. Richter is an able exponent of base ball law, and in the conflict now being wages has taken a stand of neutrality. In the following editorial he had under consideration the case of Robert Wheelock, who was released by Lowell and signed by Detroit in 1888, a question having arisen over his release: “As all base ball contracts expire at the close of a season no notice of release is required. Such notices would, in fact, be utterly superfluous. Managers and players have fulfilled their obligations to their clubs and prescribed, in their contracts, none of which can be for more than one season, and are free. Even reserved players are absolutely under no further obligations to their clubs, and the latter have, therefore, no further control of the men. Of course, such reserved player cannot sign elsewhere. But that is not because they have not the right, but because reserve is simply an agreement between the clubs not to employ each other's players, thus shutting the latter off from all clubs but the one reserving them.” There is abundant evidence to show that the opinion held by Mr. Richter was the one generally shared by base ball managers as well as players, and this evidence will be presented to Judge O'Brien by the defendant's lawyers., quoting the New York World |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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