Clipping:A claim that Day might get involved with the PL
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| Date | Sunday, October 13, 1889 |
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| Text | Representatives of the Brotherhood of Base Ball Players in New York inspected the land immediately north of the present Polo Grounds yesterday morning [10/11/]. One of these gentlemen was Mr. James J. Coogan, and the other very much resembled Mayor Hugh J. Grant. That was palpable evidence that the Brotherhood is looking for a ball ground, and as all the members in New York belong to the New York Base Ball Club, it is further evidence that the League organization in this city is in danger of disintegration. President John B. Day, of the Giants, is well aware of that fact, and for that matter so are all the magnates of the National League in the eight cities controlled by the monopoly. They are all frightened, and they have good reason to be. But, as the Item indicated, Mr. Day has been treated with more consideration by the players than some of the other aristocrats of the diamond. It is understood that when John Montgomery Ward, the President of the Brotherhood, was in the city last he called upon Mr. Day in a friendly way and gave him a tip about the negotiations going on. It is said that Mr. Day listened to his short stop, and when Ward suggested that there was no reason why Mr. Day should run an opposition team the League magnate meditatively puffed his cigar a moment and remarked that under the circumstances he could not see that there was. Of course Mr. Day, being a member of the League and the President of its champion team, would not be apt to proclaim the fact that he was contemplating an alliance with its enemies. He says he had no conversation with Ward; that he had no intention of abandoning the League, and that he did not believe that the Brotherhood players were about to desert him and run of club of their own. |
| Source | Philadelphia Item |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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