Baseball's big league owners were worried about the loyalty of the help. A few genuine pros had already succumbed to Jorge Pasquel's gold-plated offers of Mexican liberation from serfdom. Many other ballplayers had cocked a sympathetic but suspicious ear. Quite a number had flirted fitfully with Robert Murphy's baseball union (TIME, June 3). Last week, the owners opened an offensive to kill disgruntlement with kindness.
In Chicago, a committee of bigwigs of both leagues mulled it over, made a precedent-breaking decision: before they draft next year's uniform contracts (containing rules for individual player contracts),...
To continue reading:
or
Log-In
