Clipping:Using players without contracts; twenty day rule for released players

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Date Thursday, December 8, 1881
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[reporting the NL meeting of 12/7/1881; constitution amendments] The article covering the rights and duties of Clubs was amended by the addition of provisions that a player not under a League contract may be employed in five championship games instead of five consecutive days; that a player peremptorily released without expulsion may engage with another Club in twenty day,s but can not in the mean time play with the Club releasing him; that if he be released on twenty days' notice he is entitled to play and the Club can employ him in any capacity, except as a player...

Source Cincinnati Enquirer
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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
Origin Initial Hershberger Clippings

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