Clipping:Proposal for a single-entity league
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| Date | Wednesday, October 31, 1888 |
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| Text | [from Frank Brunell's column] If I could mould a league as I would I would select eight clubs within the broad, brave State of Ohio and set up one strong and impartial man to govern it. He should make contracts with men for five years, take all receipts, pay all salaries, and divide all profits among the clubs. Some would get less than they earned, but all would be sustained and the general benefit increased. It is an erroneous idea to suppose the big town should reap all the profits of the home games. The visiting teams help to draw the money and should share it, and it is better to pay a little extra to insure good visiting teams than be in a constant stew, as is the Association, to get new teams to patch up its circuit. … Of course the pooling panacea for the Ohio League would not do for the National League. But where the general profits are so small as they were in the Tri-State League of 1888, a feasible and novel—in base ball—method, such as it is, would surely be worth an honest trial. A careful and thorough presiding officer would be needed to do the business of such a league. And what a hit he could make if successful. He couldn't fail. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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