Clipping:A call for a minor league association; Western Association hints at going major
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| Date | Wednesday, November 6, 1889 |
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| Text | A dispatch from Minneapolis says:--Secretary Morton has notified the managers of clubs in minor leagues in every part of the country to send representatives to the Western Association's meeting. An alliance offensive and defensive will be formed, and then all will lay back on their oars to await the action of the League and Brotherhood meetings. The Brotherhood meeting will be held Monday, Nov. 4, and the League the week following. If the League passes reasonable rules relating to the minor associations, Morton's plan is to receive propositions from the Brotherhood. Should these propositions not meet with favor a general session of the minor leagues is pretty sure to result. Mr. Morton has a big scheme for th4 government of these associations, which has in view the Western Association becoming to the minor associations what the National League has been in the past. In a nutshell, Morton proposes that the Western Association shall become an open competitor to the National League. The Sporting Life November 6, 1889 [editorial matter] There is a silent but nevertheless strong sentiment in minor league ranks that the time has come for the minor organizations to insist upon a more equitable and less extortionate levy for protection than that now exacted of them by the two major leagues. They heavy tax of $1500 to $2000 per league, levied by the major leagues for a protection which is to a very considerable extent mutual is neither right nor just. Of course, it is quite proper that the minor leagues should share the expenses of maintaining the National Agreement, but anything more than that is simply an enforced tribute on the stand-and-deliver order, especially in view of the fact that the advantages of the protective system are not monopolized by the minor leagues by any means. How much the major leagues profit by such a system apart from the tax question is being made manifest now, and will be made more strikingly so, as the conflict between the League and its players becomes more defined. The Sporting Life November 13, 1889 |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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