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It's worth noting as well that the rules surrounding the Disabled List were a lot different in earlier years. For a long time the shorter-term DL was limited in the number of players that could be put on it (from just two to as many as five, depending on the year).
And before 1941 (except for a brief experiment in the NL in 1915-16), there was no DL at all. Clubs would have to decide whether to carry an injured player on the roster or release him (with the general understanding that an injured player given his release would be paid the balance of his salary for the year rather than the usual 10-day severance pay given to released players).
Certainly the rules teams had to work with in regards to the DL must have affected to some extent the usage of any injured players.
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Last edited by Le Grande Orange : 04-19-2008 at 02:18 PM.
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