Clipping:St. Louis Club refused admission to the PL
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| Date | Thursday, December 19, 1889 |
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| Text | [dateline New York] Of all the base ball men who have been in this city to attend or to watch the meeting of the new Players' League Chris Von der Ahe is the most angry and the most discouraged. He came here with the belief that he would be admitted to the new league and in fact many of the delegates acknowledged that the whole thing was cut and dried. Even up to the time that the matter of admitting the St. Louis club to the new league came before the meeting everybody was sure that the club would get in; but it did not and the “boss” president will go home and try to form a new league with the remnant of the old American Association. When the question of the admission of St. Louis to the league came up the Pittsburg delegates exploded a bomb in the shape of a flat refusal to get out. They were int to stay, and stay they would. They showed any number of telegrams from men in Pitsburg who offered to take stock in the club. They showed that they were perfectly capable of supporting their club. That settled it, and the St. Louis president was notified that there was no chance for his club at present. Chris, on his own behalf, said that he had been reasonably sure of getting in the league, but now that he had not been able to do so, he would either try to build up the old American Association or go into the Western League. “It is hard to tell just what I will do just now,” said Chris, “but the playing season has not begun yet, and many things are likely to turn up by the time it does.” St. Louis Republic December 19, 1889 [from an interview of Von der Ahe] I went to New York as the representative of the American Association, with full power to act, not only in so far as St. Louis' joining the brotherhood was concerned, but as to consolidating the whole American Association with the brotherhood. I had a pleasant time with the players, talked the matter over with them and soon concluded that their ideas of doing business and mine were so widely different that we could not agree, and all thoughts of an amalgamation ended right there. As soon as I left New York I set to to work to reorganize the American Association.... St. Louis Republic December 22, 1889 |
| Source | St. Louis Republic |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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