Clipping:St. Louis and the Union Association
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| Date | Sunday, November 4, 1883 |
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| Text | The gossip of the past week in base ball circles has centred about the new club, which, if managers assert, has come to stay. It will be heartily welcomed and be a favorite from the start. St. Louis is large enough for two clubs and will give both abundant patronage if both play good ball. What affiliation the new club will have has not yet been officially announced, but the probabilities are that it will join the Union association. … With regard to the Union association, but little as yet can be ventured. Its projectors claim to have clubs anxious for admittance at Chicago, Pittsburg, Philadelphia, Cincinnati, New York and Washington, but there is a secrecy about its movements that is suspicious. It is time for it to show its hand if it means business and intends to enter the arena in 1884 to divide the patronage with the older associations. Unlike the others it will not observe the reserve rule, although it will respect contracts entered into between players and the other organizations. If the latter will not play with clubs which have reserved players in their ranks the Union association will be compelled to “go it alone,” and this it cannot successfully do unless it has well-equipped nines in at least four Western and as many Eastern cities. If it can get clubs with large capital in these cities the success is assured. (St. Louis) |
| Source | Missouri Republican |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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