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- |Title=A rumored attempt to sell a game ...ast season, that a well-known player positively offered him $1,000 to sell a game between the Hartford and Philadelphia club nines. And yet the player521 bytes (83 words) - 19:02, 29 February 2020
- |Title=a sell-out476 bytes (69 words) - 18:36, 29 February 2020
- |Title=a rumor that Barnie is willing to sell the Baltimores ...as been offered $12,000 for his plant but wants $25,000 and won’t seel for a less figure.</p>367 bytes (58 words) - 20:06, 29 February 2020
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- |Title=A rumored attempt to sell a game ...ast season, that a well-known player positively offered him $1,000 to sell a game between the Hartford and Philadelphia club nines. And yet the player521 bytes (83 words) - 19:02, 29 February 2020
- |Text=<p>...a Sporting Life correspondent talked with President Phelps, of the Louisville756 bytes (116 words) - 20:20, 29 February 2020
- |Title=a definition and condemnation of 'revolving' ...f them fit to be trusted. They only lack opportunities to sell a club for a fifty-dollar bill.</p>1 KB (205 words) - 18:35, 29 February 2020
- ...the ticket. These tickets will be on sale at Hawley's when printed, where a plat of the Grand Stand will be found, so that the seat may be selected wit920 bytes (160 words) - 19:17, 29 February 2020
- ...t acquiesced and even voted for Pittsburg’s admission. The club was given a chance to recoup itslef by the League’s waiving all right to the club’s1 KB (236 words) - 20:11, 29 February 2020
- ...ame under any circumstance. The cases of Hall, Devlin and Craver has been a lesson to all of them.</p>402 bytes (64 words) - 19:49, 29 February 2020
- ...to do? They will either have to do down into their own pockets and raise a stake or they will be obliged to sell two or three of their most valuable p1 KB (253 words) - 20:11, 29 February 2020
- ...season, said that a well-known player positively offered him $1000 to sell a game between the Hartford and Philadelphia club nine. And yet the player i449 bytes (67 words) - 19:02, 29 February 2020
- |Title=a rumor that Barnie is willing to sell the Baltimores ...as been offered $12,000 for his plant but wants $25,000 and won’t seel for a less figure.</p>367 bytes (58 words) - 20:06, 29 February 2020
- ...t it can sell nothing but its franchise. The players will go with this in a body and individuals cannot be singled out and sold to any club other than3 KB (459 words) - 20:11, 29 February 2020
- ...ands. It is understood that the Kansas City Club has filed with Mr. Young a schedule giving the names and prices of the player they are willing to sell1 KB (220 words) - 20:41, 29 February 2020
- ...d and received from the club a written guarantee that each was entitled to a front seat in the grand pavilion for life.</p>611 bytes (99 words) - 20:28, 29 February 2020
- ...to play the Maroons this season in the League and to play their club with a nine of their own selection, and that it will brook no interference on the ...en still further strengthened, and the League would have been saddled with a new club yet weaker than the present St. Louis club.</p>3 KB (597 words) - 20:11, 29 February 2020
- ...at a lower figure, which ti took in 1885, and could now sell its option at a handsome advance.</p>627 bytes (103 words) - 20:21, 29 February 2020
- |Title=a rumor of Kansas City selling out to Pittsburgh331 bytes (54 words) - 20:06, 29 February 2020
- |Title=a scheme to include car fare with the admission price ...ee the game a round forty cents, but it is doubtful if it produces as good a result as would be by selling tickets outright at forty cents.</p>663 bytes (112 words) - 20:27, 29 February 2020
- ...ddendum notes that the Aldermen passed the measure to sell the property by a vote of 23 to 9.]</p>3 KB (482 words) - 19:51, 29 February 2020
- |Title=A. J. Reach Co. becomes a stock company ...poration 600 shares are to be issued as full-paid, non-assessable stock to A. J. Reach, and 300 shares to Ben Shibe and Emanual Hoff.</p>784 bytes (121 words) - 20:29, 29 February 2020
- |Text=<p>The Haymakers of Lansingburg, held a meeting for re-organization last week. It was decided to sell five hundred467 bytes (72 words) - 18:35, 29 February 2020
- ...teadfastly refused to sell. Recently he has added to his real estate list a couple of houses. One of these he bought from Doc Bushong, of the Brooklyn569 bytes (89 words) - 20:46, 29 February 2020
- |Title=a sell-out476 bytes (69 words) - 18:36, 29 February 2020
- |Title=a rumor of Buffalo to buy out Detroit ...alo is a great ball town, as witness the large crowds at Olympic Park with a losing team., quoting the Buffalo Express</p>847 bytes (140 words) - 20:27, 29 February 2020
- |Text=<p>The managers of the Nationals of Washington have decided to sell a limited number of season tickets, charging ten dollars for gentlemen and fi479 bytes (73 words) - 19:17, 29 February 2020
- ...ndianapolis delegates away, and no meeting was held. During the afternoon a conclusion of the negotiation was reached, and the Indianapolis players wer2 KB (299 words) - 20:00, 29 February 2020
- |Title=how much will people pay to see a match? ...The public differed with these officers, and only 1900 tickets were bought–a just and telling rebuke to the greed of the club. About two thousand perso597 bytes (90 words) - 18:28, 29 February 2020
- ...ntracts with the players, by which the backers of the club hope to realize a bonus to help them out to some extent.</p>474 bytes (75 words) - 19:54, 29 February 2020
- ...bad faith of the very men who adopted the amendment. It is intimated that a good player who now receives say $1,500 over the new limit, may be able to604 bytes (102 words) - 20:28, 29 February 2020
- ...ckford Clubs, played in Sept., 1865, was removed, and he was reinstated as a member in good standing in the professional clubs of the fraternity, as Dev494 bytes (77 words) - 18:37, 29 February 2020
- ...orning that he had come down $500 in his valuation, and there was now only a difference of $1,000 between them. This may be split or compromised in som700 bytes (113 words) - 20:36, 29 February 2020
- ...by declaring that there was not in my nature any of the characteristics of a Benedict Arnold. Should I accept any such cowardly advice there is nothing ...h the men who betrayed us, and who now add insult to injury by making such a suggestion to me—I should deserve the odium of all men.</p>2 KB (446 words) - 20:42, 29 February 2020
- ...money by issuing coupon tickets to be redeemed in case of postponement of a game. The time may come when such action will be regretted.</p>714 bytes (120 words) - 18:40, 29 February 2020
- ...cted to the expunging of this article, and as it was held to be naught but a private business matter the liquor law was eliminated.</p>732 bytes (118 words) - 19:40, 29 February 2020
- ...nearly consummated, for on that day, Tuesday, Manager Von der Ahe received a telegram from Mike Scanlon, then at Washington, asking whether the St. Loui ...Schmelz, who was then at Washington. He told Schmelz that he had received a ltter from Erastus Wiman, the Metropolitan millionaire, asking him upon wha3 KB (548 words) - 20:06, 29 February 2020
- ...] nine when it started last May, but fortune favored the game here, and by a series of bad management and managerial kicking the Club heaped up so many937 bytes (154 words) - 19:10, 29 February 2020
- ...ark, this week starts out in business for himself. To-morrow he will open a saloon and restaurant at the corner of Delmar and Taylor avenues. He sends ...ons do no sell out, and Spink is given a chance, he will place the club on a better footing than it ever has been. The Philadelphia Times January 23, 1928 bytes (153 words) - 20:11, 29 February 2020
- ...ur if he could get away without being blacklisted or sold. Bse ball needs a general overhauling, and the more law it gets the better it will be for the1 KB (223 words) - 20:10, 29 February 2020
- ...nk and Richard J. Lennon, against the Athletic Base Ball Club, asking that a receiver might be appointed for that corporation. The plaintiffs state tha ...ppoint a receiver to take charge of the property. Judge Finletter granted a preliminary injunction in the case.</p>1 KB (179 words) - 20:46, 29 February 2020
- ...to him—that is, place the club in the hands of the Association. He wrote a letter to President Wikoff explaining the situation, and directed him to se734 bytes (116 words) - 20:37, 29 February 2020
- ...ident Hewitt on this question, and President Young said to-day that he was a loss to understand why he is acting and talking so.</p>631 bytes (101 words) - 20:42, 29 February 2020
- ...y were last season, at $25, and an effort to dispose of 500 will be made. A ladies' book will also be put on sale, but what the price of that will be i832 bytes (141 words) - 20:35, 29 February 2020
- |Title=Harry Stevens a hustler ...to catch the eye of nearly all the managers who come here, and it's quite a compliment to the hustling young fellow to say that he has offers to sell c799 bytes (136 words) - 20:38, 29 February 2020
- |Title=the reserve raises the value of a player's sale ...hen and there. The clubs claimed that the right to retain the services of a valuable player was necessary for the conservation of the game, and with th1 KB (257 words) - 20:20, 29 February 2020
- ...boards” and pavillion for a nickel a pice. Will Hennessy is to preside at a candy booth in the grand stand, and boys in unfiroms will sell the sweetmea ...to a place in the shoes so ably worn by Mr. Caylor. O. P. Continues to be a member of the staff and will dispense base ball comfort from New York as th1 KB (202 words) - 20:11, 29 February 2020
- <p>The sale of season tickets [in Chicago] promises to be a large one. Two or three hundred have already been secured. After this wee581 bytes (90 words) - 19:47, 29 February 2020
- ...the ground without a franchise, as to the big three, off the grounds with a franchise. Suppose the property is sold in March, and the big three don't2 KB (417 words) - 20:25, 29 February 2020
- ...nd thereby losing the eighth club in the Association it is proposed to put a stop to the sale and President Wickoff has been requested not to ratify the ...d some wiring to Eastern managers it was decided to settle the business in a special meeting. President Stern is now said to be negotiating for the rel1 KB (235 words) - 20:36, 29 February 2020
- ...ircuit was formed that I intended to stay, and I am going to. If there is a League in the field this season, Indianapolis will belong to it.</p>1 KB (204 words) - 20:42, 29 February 2020
- ...a club when the very men who won it for them may be hired the next week by a rival club to wrest the title from them. The club that can afford to pay th1 KB (256 words) - 07:19, 12 November 2020
- ...ayers would be thrown out of employment, while under this arrangement only a few players will be held out. It was well known that Providence and Buffal2 KB (261 words) - 20:01, 29 February 2020
- ...to persuade Mr. Hewitt to sell out to Detroit but even that is doubtful. A compromise will have to be agreed upon between Indianapolis and the League. ...d provide Mr. Day with fillers for his present team and enable him to make a good front. He could pick up one pitcher of experience from the minor leag2 KB (350 words) - 20:42, 29 February 2020
- ...ed in their efforts to procure his release, would themselves be victims of a trick. Once released by Cleveland he would be free, and could go where he1 KB (204 words) - 19:51, 29 February 2020
- ...hat Indianapolis will have a base-ball team for 1885. if it does not hold a place in the Association, it may join one of the other leagues, possibly th1 KB (202 words) - 19:56, 29 February 2020
- ..., a reflection on the framers of the rule, an insult to decent players and a dishonor to our national sport. “Our National Game” by John Montgomery2 KB (266 words) - 20:27, 29 February 2020
- ...esirous of buying First Baseman Hillery, Second Baseman Grimm (who is also a fine catcher), and Right Fielder Rooks of Lima. As Toledo was playing here ...ce can be placed in official averages. Raising players to sell has become a business, and it looks as though the official scorers were instructed to fa1 KB (189 words) - 20:27, 29 February 2020
- ...say what his salary will be. When the $2,000 limit is mentioned he smiles a significant smile. His salary last season was away over $3,000, and he say1 KB (221 words) - 20:05, 29 February 2020
- ...ball they can get, leaving to muffer batsmen the boyish sport of knocking a lively ball over the heads of out-fielders.</p>2 KB (285 words) - 18:38, 29 February 2020
- ...ne of the players and that he was sent to get it. As soon as he gets into a far corner of the bleaching boards he forgets to deliver the bat. The smal2 KB (317 words) - 20:27, 29 February 2020
- ...ations to law will not come into the courts by way of this suit. It is on a side contract only.</p>1 KB (215 words) - 20:37, 29 February 2020
- |Title=rumor of a League club in Indianapolis ...lose no time. Count St. Louis and Kansas City out of the race. Organize a stock company with the same amount of vim and enterprise and backed with th1 KB (223 words) - 20:11, 29 February 2020
- |Title=Bancroft accuses the League of trying to induce a player to revolve ...ssociation, and under the International rules no Association club can play a nine employing an expelled player. Brilliant prospects for Bradley and the2 KB (258 words) - 19:11, 29 February 2020
- |Title=Cherokee Fisher shown to have thrown a game ...instance of a “sold” game in 1876. There have been plenty of charges, and a good deal of wild talk, but nothing like proof in any single case before th2 KB (331 words) - 19:04, 29 February 2020
- ...which will be done by virtue of the book itself. So, if a gentleman takes a lady with him two coupons will admit him and her to the grounds and the boo1 KB (184 words) - 19:11, 29 February 2020
- ...innati 8/26/1869] Very many inspired devotees of the noble game predicted a sell out on the part of the “Red Stockings,” or if not by the club enti ...iolence of nature be restrained and regulated by law, and yet have at once a game of all. As the methods of striking and stopping or “batting” and3 KB (543 words) - 18:35, 29 February 2020
- |Title=a condemnation of player sales, the reserve ...d every dollar he drew from the Chicago Club, and was his own man, and had a legal and moral right, had he chosen to exercise it, to go to Boston whenev2 KB (286 words) - 20:26, 29 February 2020
- |Title=a trick on the Mutuals' southern trip ...lf of them tumbled into a ditch they had to cross, Eggler among the number–a friend having taken him up to dinner with the first party. By the time tha2 KB (320 words) - 18:35, 29 February 2020
- ...iring any unpopularity. It would make no difference whether they declared a dividend or voted themselves salaries of $10,000 each. To be sure they hav <p>The Boston triumvirate are offering to buy up Boston stock at $300 a share. They have gathered in several shares in this way. The Sporting Lif1 KB (242 words) - 20:20, 29 February 2020
- ...embers of the fraternity will frown this open betting down, it will be put a step to; but just so long as it is countenanced, just so long may we expect2 KB (329 words) - 18:27, 29 February 2020
- ...ce it the best they have ever seen. Decker has put the glove on sale with A. J. Reach & Col, who are prepared to promptly fill all orders sent to them.891 bytes (157 words) - 20:36, 29 February 2020
- ...have the first chance at the players, and Mr. Howe promised to furnish me a list of their addresses and all the needful information. He knew I was not924 bytes (153 words) - 19:59, 29 February 2020
- ...will be reached on a basis of 50 per cent., each party taking $100,000 of a capital stock of $200,000, at which figure the reorganized club will be inc1 KB (232 words) - 20:45, 29 February 2020
- ...bs want to strengthen themselves next year, they will sell them to them at a handsome profit. It is evident that unless such transactions can be stoppe1 KB (182 words) - 20:07, 29 February 2020
- ...nd the other a syndicate of which Harry Sterne is a member, represented by a written application sent to League magnate.</p>2 KB (317 words) - 20:46, 29 February 2020
- ...all and cricket grounds (which in the winter season will be converted into a skating pond), up to 1 st of May, 1867. For particulars, apply to P.W. Met <p>suggesting a backstop at the Olympic grounds</p>2 KB (277 words) - 18:27, 29 February 2020
- ...th other men. When they signed and White grew obstreperous it gave Boston a chance to get out, and it agreed to pay Detroit $500 to take him off its ha ...r relations to law will not come into court by way of this suit. It is on a side contract only. When the receipts for the Thursday games were all foot1 KB (254 words) - 20:37, 29 February 2020
- ...d like slaves in bondage, and reasoned that if there was any money in such a sale they were the ones that ought to get it. It was for this reason that2 KB (340 words) - 19:55, 29 February 2020
- |Title=protection for the minor leagues; a rumor of a protective association; player movement ...er dinner at 3 o'clock, and added that they preferred to have them come in a body.</p>6 KB (1,070 words) - 20:25, 29 February 2020
- ...fficient to let the club out without loss on the season, and possibly with a small profit. The deal only needs the sanction of the stockholders, Monday ...s price was also thought to be too high, although this would not have been a serious obstacle in the way of negotiations had Detroit been determined to2 KB (298 words) - 20:41, 29 February 2020
- ...art by a desire to sell baseball equipment; nonetheless, they helped build a baseball diamond at Palmar del Junco, where the first baseball games in Cub <p><span>A game was for sure played in 1867. See the Washington (DC) Evening Star, Sep1 KB (209 words) - 06:36, 30 October 2021
- ...to grab at the chance to sell if the money was really offered, and I think a majority of either League or Brotherhood managers would have done the same1 KB (227 words) - 20:46, 29 February 2020
- ...thletic Club, and that $60,000 had been named by the Philadelphia people. A short time ago it was said that the Athletic Club could have been purchased ...ut. So was Sharsig, but as he had been signed as manager for next year at a salary of $2000, he would only agree to sell out his stock with the underst6 KB (972 words) - 20:41, 29 February 2020
- ..., 23; J. B. Billings, 23; A. J. Chase, George H. Lloyd, F. F. Roundy, E. A. Pope, G. B. Hart, George B. Appleton and C. B. Corey, one each. The Sport ...t on it. The “pro rata dividend” would not be hardly enough to give a man a trip around the world, and when things were settled up the triumvirs would2 KB (305 words) - 20:25, 29 February 2020
- ...place last Friday evening at W.C. Gillingham’s, Fifth and Locust streets. A large assemblage was present, including many prominent members of the Athle ...should attend the meeting at the above-mentioned place. The club will be a stock concern, and nor on the co-operative plan. Philadelphia Sunday Mercu2 KB (340 words) - 18:45, 29 February 2020
- |Title=buying a release; the reserve as a slave mart ...him. It is understood that the Chicago Club has the lead in the race with a bid of $500.</p>2 KB (360 words) - 19:51, 29 February 2020
- ...more. It really looks very much as if Mr. Brush had some idea of forming a base ball trust of his own. Players will be badly needed by other clubs, i2 KB (360 words) - 20:42, 29 February 2020
- |Text=<p>The Cincinnati Base-Ball Club has been sold to Aaron Stern, a wealthy merchant in this city, who owned the club two years ago, and dispos ...e reasons he has concluded to sell out the club and we are now looking for a purchaser. Mr. Stern will in all probability buy us out.” The Sporting2 KB (336 words) - 20:10, 29 February 2020
- ...al feeling of uncertainty exists as to base ball for next season and it is a feeling that will not be changed up until the annual meeting of the America <p>a condemnation of buying and selling players</p>2 KB (330 words) - 20:28, 29 February 2020
- ...gest and most evenly balanced teams that were ever entered into a race for a base ball championship. On the other hand, this deal left the League with ...adjust matters. A committee of our League met their committee to arrange a compromise, and you what has been accomplished in this direction.</p>5 KB (854 words) - 20:46, 29 February 2020
- |Title=Bob Ferguson assaults a player; game selling ...873] It is needless to give much account of this game, as it was evidently a square give away. It was impossible for the Baltimores to win while the um4 KB (790 words) - 18:51, 29 February 2020
- ...r. Hoyer states that he will go into court alleging fraud and request that a receiver be appointed. He thinks that the old stockholders have been illeg <p>Some time ago a number of the old stockholders confessed judgment in the sum of $29,000. U2 KB (384 words) - 20:11, 29 February 2020
- ...aying through the scheduled season when her club broke down, thus avoiding a serious break in the League ranks, it was resolved to allow Providence to r ...permitted to enter unless an eighth club is secured in the West. If such a club is not secured there is every probability that but six clubs will ente1 KB (242 words) - 20:01, 29 February 2020
- ...Brotherhood agent. So when they met yesterday morning George encountered a storm the like of which he had not encountered in his travels. He denied t ...e been able to capture Comiskey on the trip, and also accused him of being a Brotherhood sympathizer. The Sporting Life January 22, 1890</p>2 KB (351 words) - 20:41, 29 February 2020
- ...sed that clubs to allowed to play Sundays. The town of Quincy, Ill., made a feeble protest, but the delegates voted 8 to 2 to authorize Sunday playing. ...be made most profitable sources of revenue to the club, thus helping many a weakling along without injury to the morals of any one, puritanic talk to t2 KB (268 words) - 19:51, 29 February 2020
- ...us right. When the season tickets were issued, the Major sent each of us a simple admission ticket, which did not entitle us to seats in the grand sta1 KB (250 words) - 20:05, 29 February 2020
- |Title=rumors of Lucas joining the League; the Cleveland players; a split in the National Agreement ...black-listed for breaking the reserve rule will be reinstated after paying a fine of $500 to $1,000. Cincinnati Enquirer January 6, 1885</p>3 KB (461 words) - 19:57, 29 February 2020
- ...s, and, by strengthening it with additions of first-class players, make it a winner and entitled to the patronage of the people. The Sporting Life Octo ...s found that a League club at any point is suffering from competition with a Brotherhood team money will be advanced the League club to carry on the fig2 KB (435 words) - 20:40, 29 February 2020
- |Title=an umpire and a manager talk of selling games ...more proof than the assertion or affidavit of a man who, as an umpire, has a very bad reputation throughout the country–the Chicago Tribune and New Yo2 KB (421 words) - 19:10, 29 February 2020
- |Title=early talk of a merged NL/AA twelve club league ...er Ahe] “Yes,” said the champions’ president, “there is a movement to form a twelve-club league, but it is hardly likely to be ready for next season. I2 KB (352 words) - 20:15, 29 February 2020
- ...gainst their will, Rowe went to him and respectfully asked that he receive a portion of the purchase money, and he added that, if that was done, he woul ...rred up the Brotherhood, and I may say it made the players resolve to take a stand. That stand will be taken.” Pittsburgh Dispatch October 14, 1889<3 KB (523 words) - 20:40, 29 February 2020
- |Title=a lager saloon at the Athletics ground? ...and gentlemen from visiting the enclosure. We don’t object to lager, but a ball ground is not the place to sell it. Philadelphia City Item August 1,3 KB (434 words) - 18:30, 29 February 2020
- ...is on this point that the League refuses to recognize us, for it has been a great source of revenue to its clubs in having the privilege of selling its2 KB (393 words) - 20:20, 29 February 2020