{"id":15939,"date":"2016-04-04T00:49:31","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T00:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballhalloffame.ca\/?p=15939"},"modified":"2016-04-04T00:49:31","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T00:49:31","slug":"2006-inductee-larry-mcleans-contract-talks-100-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballhalloffame.ca\/fr\/2006-inductee-larry-mcleans-contract-talks-100-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"2006 INDUCTEE LARRY MCLEANS CONTRACT TALKS 100 YEARS AGO"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\">Larry McLean&#8217;s Unusual Baseball Contract Demand<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballhalloffame.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/2006-larry-mclean.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1563\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1563\" src=\"https:\/\/baseballhalloffame.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/2006-larry-mclean-179x300.jpg\" alt=\"John McLean\" width=\"179\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/baseballhalloffame.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/2006-larry-mclean-179x300.jpg 179w, https:\/\/baseballhalloffame.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/2006-larry-mclean-7x12.jpg 7w, https:\/\/baseballhalloffame.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/2006-larry-mclean.jpg 385w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 179px) 100vw, 179px\" \/><\/a>Haggling over contracts is nothing new in professional baseball. For years, players and management have gone back and forth over getting the perceived upper hand when it comes to determining worth. In the days before free agency and player representation, teams could more or less dictate the terms, which could lead to some pretty unhappy exchanges and counter proposals. Perhaps none were as bizarre as hard-drinking catcher <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/mcleala01.shtml\">Larry McLean<\/a>, who tried to <a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/newspapers?nid=1144&amp;dat=19101202&amp;id=mxUbAAAAIBAJ&amp;sjid=3EgEAAAAIBAJ&amp;pg=6075,452979&amp;hl=en\">negotiate<\/a> the payment of 25 cents for every drink he refused during the 1911 season with the Cincinnati Reds.<\/p>\n<p>McLean was a towering (6\u20195\u201d, 230-pound catcher), who broke into the majors with the Boston Americans in 1901. He eventually gained a reputation as a good-hitting and fielding receiver with a penchant for the bottle. To say he had a taste for the drink and trouble would be an understatement. He was involved in <a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/newspapers?nid=1126&amp;dat=19130227&amp;id=YBxRAAAAIBAJ&amp;sjid=m2YDAAAAIBAJ&amp;pg=3867,3250681&amp;hl=en\">saloon brawls<\/a> during his playing career and was eventually <a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/newspapers?nid=22&amp;dat=19210325&amp;id=IsoHAAAAIBAJ&amp;sjid=kDQDAAAAIBAJ&amp;pg=3185,2010162&amp;hl=en\">killed<\/a> in one in 1921 at the age of 39, when he and a friend mixed it up with a bartender who happened to have a gun with him behind the counter at his near beer joint.<\/p>\n<p>Lire la suite <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/baseballhistorian.blogspot.ca\/2016\/03\/larry-mcleans-unusual-baseball-contract.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+TheBaseballHistorian+(The+Baseball+Historian)&amp;m=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cliquez ici.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larry McLean&#8217;s Unusual Baseball Contract Demand Haggling over contracts is nothing new in professional baseball. For years, players and management have gone back and forth over getting the perceived upper hand when it comes to determining worth. In the days before free agency and player representation, teams could more or less dictate the terms, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"current":[],"class_list":["post-15939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>2006 INDUCTEE LARRY MCLEANS CONTRACT TALKS 100 YEARS AGO - Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/baseballhalloffame.ca\/fr\/2006-inductee-larry-mcleans-contract-talks-100-years-ago\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"fr_CA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"2006 INDUCTEE LARRY MCLEANS CONTRACT TALKS 100 YEARS AGO - Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Larry McLean&#8217;s Unusual Baseball Contract Demand Haggling over contracts is nothing new in professional baseball. 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