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12 called "Organized Baseball" any more than the plaintiff and its so-called constituent members are "organized baseball".

The only demands which we have made upon players is that they do the same thing we do - live up to the contracts we make with them. When a baseball player has served out the life of his contract, he is a free agent and can play wherever he pleases, but, so long as he is under contract, we claim that he is duty-bound to observe the contract s in good faith, just as we expect to do, and it is our judgment that if he does not observe his contract, but jumps it, that the sport of baseball is very much injured, because good sportsmanship is inconsistent with dishonor. We know that millions of boys in the United States are looking at everything we do, and, if we go wrong, or do not play fair, it will have a bad effect upon honorable contests among them, and we think that these same boys are looking at the players who make contracts, and, when they break them, that their notion of honor in sport