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HoiOlaiPhiGillHatGarHaxT(salary ror playing, bus Decause lie would-not. Lef th% players ask themselves, including the “reserved” men, Whether it was better for them, thife year and the years to come, that George Wright stepped down and out, than for the-Cleveiaud,Troy, Buffalo and Cincinnati Clubs to have done so.As a matter of fact, put on purely business grounds, ij spite of the obnoxious agreement,base ball players are overpaid. The cost to themembers of the League of maintaining their j lr teams this year, over and above the sums re- Cle^ oeivelt;l from the game, will not fall far short of ! Bo8 ten thousand dollars. For this defloit the management will have to go down Into their wallets.What would be thought of the business ability of a manufacturer who should, year after year, pay to his employes, in salaries, not only the entire amodnt realized upon the articles manufactured, but some thousands of dollars besides? This is precisely what the League has been doing slnoe it was organized. Yet these papers are howling about the “arbitrariness” of the League and its attempt to deprive players of their manhood. It is arbitrary to the extent of severe legislation in the interest of honest play—leglslation which has made base ball confessedly the “squar-est” sport in the country, ana has brought to its patronage a fluer class of people than any other out door pastime. It deprives the players of their manhood to the extent of reserving” them at au expense wbioh lndndes every cent they make andsome thousands of dollars besides, the men who run it making good the difference out of their love for the game. For the players to demand more would be to get nothing. Certain sums, such astraveling expenses, hotel bills, uuiprre’s fees, c.,can not be reduced, and are as great for a weak club as a strong one. It lias been found In the experience of eight dubs that not less than six loseRiTVBosTlUStBiTlt;PiWViInUniHa}InRocNatInChilt;TroA561alai
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Cincinnati Commercial
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Fri, Sep 03, 1880
Page 6
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Tom P.
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