Word: players
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could talk for three days on some of the injustices done to ball players by the club owners," said Murphy. A soft-spoken lawyer in his middle thirties, he talked with a perceptible. New England accent of Connie Mack's offer to cut Jimmy Foxx's salary from $18,000 to $12,000 after the 1933 season, the second consecutive year that Foxx had run off with the most valuable player honors in the American League...
...Guild program contains six main points: that 50 per cent of the purchase price go to a player if he is sold, that the players have the right to arbitrate their salary disputes and grievances, that there be no maximum salary, that there be a minimum salary of $7500 per year, that contracts not be one sided, and that there be provisions for bonuses and insurance...
According to Murphy, the Guild has no desire to stand baseball on its ear. He does not consider unreasonable the arguments he has heard against a player's getting part of his purchase price and he admits that the 50 per cent and $7500 figures are purely arbitrary and can be changed if some other settlement is reached. He doesn't believe that the much discussed reserve clause can be completely done away with without benfitting the more affluent clubs...
Murphy does not feel, however, that the contract, in its present form, would stand up in a court of law, since it is completely one-sided, binding a player to one team for life, while the club must give him only ten days notice before releasing...
Despite the player-owner meeting and the rebuff the union received in Pittsburgh, Murphy plans to continue the Guild along the same lines that it has been running, that is, to attempt to get all the ball players to join and to get recognition from the club owners...