Player contract question

[thecatspajamas]

Could it also be the case that the contract signed by both the player and President or owner was retained by the ball club, and another copy signed by the President or owner was given to the player for their own records, which may or may not have been signed by the player? Not necessarily that the player didn't agree with something in the contract, but that they didn't feel the need to sign something that was essentially a duplicate of the contract on file.

I don't know one way or the other. It just seems like if there was paperwork stating something that was rejected by the player, it would have been destroyed or have notations of corrections rather than filing away something that was never agreed to.