The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1953-01-22


the Hagerstown Baseball Club, at a
special meeting of the Board of Di-
rectors of the Interstate League, to
be held in Lancaster, Pa, on We'd
nesday, January %, will present a
resolution, calling on the League to
bring before the Commissioner of
Baseball and the president of the
Professional Baseball League, the
information supplied in his state
ment
The full text of Mr.. Raney's state
ment follows:
Since the close of the 1852 season
in the Interstate League / have at
tended every meeting. Our Presi-
dent Jerry Nugent has on several oc-
casions asked each representative of
the clubs, especially those who were
representing the Major League clubs
operating in the Interstate League, if
they were going to continue to OPP
crate in Allentown, Sunbury, and
Wilmington, and have yet to hear
anyone authorized and delegated the
power to represent these clubs say
that they were not going to continue
their utilization with the Interstate
League and operate in 1858. At our
meeting in Philadelphia on Novem-
Der 25th, 1852, which was on the
eve of the annual meeting of the Ma
tional Association, the only informa-
ton which was furnished to us was
the assurance that if they decided not
to operate in one city they would
operate through a working agree
ment or in another town.
From the date of that November
! meeting up to the present time, we
have been subjected to the worst
misrepresentation and double cross
ing that could be placed upon any
one Through the undercover meth
cd in transferring their holdings into
other leagues, their deceitfulness
and their Withholding of the truth,
they have caused a great financial
loss to me and our league.
1t is known fact now that three
ball clubs associated with the Inter
state League did wilfully withhold
the information that they knew they
were not going to operate in the
Interstate League in 1883 At the
same time their representative at
tended the meetings of the Inter
state League and voted on rules
which govern the National Associa-
ton and our league, assuring other
members of the league that they
would operate. Then, after they
gain this valuable time, they pull out
of the league and now the league is
left in bad shape and is forced to
try to get others to come in and take
over, in an effort to survive and be
able to operate for 1853 By trans
ferring their holdings to other
leagues they have crippled and
financially ruined the Interstate
League.
Therefore we feel that we have a
right to demand hearing before the
Commissioner of Baseball to state
these facts and feel that those play
ers who were on the roster of the
Sunbury Giants, the Allentown
Cardinals, and Wilmington Blue
Rocks, in the Interstate League, after
the Phoenix meeting, be declared
free agents, or that these three clubs
be forced to operate in the league,
either as club or through working
agreement with some person or per
sons who would like to see baseball
continue in the Interstate League.
Three years ago l went into base
ball for hobby and as relaxation
from business world, thinking that
not too much would be required of
my time; that l would only be in
watching the ball games during the
summer. What an awakening l
have had. started to work when l
was twelve years old, working long
hours, travelling many miles, and
through that hard work l saw bust
ness grow and my efforts bringing
success. After forty years I thought
would be able to take time off from
the business world, relax and enjoy
family life, but l have found that is
not to be. In all my business deal
ings, both with the big business man
I and the small one, we have been
[ able to solve our problems in one
way or another, but that is not the
way in baseball. Never before in
my life of dealing in business have
| come into such a mess.
We attend meetings. There, rep
resenting those ones who have
brought on all of the headaches, are
Charlie McCarthys," speaking and
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