Clipping:A proposal for an amateur national championship
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| Date | Wednesday, January 22, 1890 |
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| Text | [from a circular by the Amateur Athletic Union] The A.A.U. Of the United States invites your attention to the organizaiton of a series of open amateur base ball contests, in which to decide the Eastern and Western amateur base ball championship of the united States. .. ...a schedule of base ball games will be played on Wednesday and Saturdays... composed of teams in and about New York City, in and about Philadelphia and in and about Washington, in and about Boston, in and about Chicago and in and about St. Louis. The winners of the scheduled series of games at New York, Philadelphia, Boston and Washington...will play a series of three (or five) games for the Eastern base ball championships...so, likewise, will the Western amateur base ball championship be decided by winners of the Detroit, Chicago and St. Louis series of games. … Teams winning the Eastern and Western amateur base ball championships will be called upon to compete for the amateur base ball championship of the United States... [A. G. Mills one of the signatories] |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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