Clipping:A proposal for a professional championship tournament
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| Date | Sunday, March 6, 1870 |
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| Text | All the fraternity will rejoice to learn that we are to have a grand baseball tournament every year henceforth, in which the contested question of the right ownership of the whip-pennant will be satisfactorily settled. The idea is to have a week’s play in which the four leading clubs of the country would meet each other, thereby playing six games, the winner of the greatest number to be declared the champions for the season. ... The idea of the tourney is to count the best of contestants to the four clubs taking the lead in the play by the close of August, by which time it will be pretty definitely ascertained which of the above clubs are fairly entitled to enter. Any crack club losing a series of games, should not be classed among the leading clubs we should say. This tourney bids fair to be the solution to the knotty questions as to which club is entitled to the championship this season. At any rate it will be the great baseball event of the year. The first tourney will be held in the metropolis; but whether on the Capitoline, Union, or Tremont Grounds is not yet settled and will not be until the season sets in. Should there be a promise of a very large assemblage than the largest held, will of course, be selected. In 1871 the tourney will be held in Philadelphia; in 1872 in Cincinnati, and then in Boston, thus changing the locality each year. |
| Source | New York Sunday Mercury |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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