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Old 07-30-2011, 02:20 AM   #25
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Originally Posted by AESP_pres View Post
This is quite an impressive ammount of money for the time, but that sound like a waste of money at a time where the players were almost the boss (team jumping, free agency almost every year,...).
The reserve limit was 14 for the 1887 season, which was enough to keep a team's main players under club control. (The average number of players to appear on a major league roster during the 1887 season was 20.8; the minimum was 16, the maximum 33.)
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