Clipping:An amateur national association floated
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| Date | Sunday, December 4, 1870 |
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| Text | Notice is hereby given to all amateur organizations throughout the country that an Amateur National Association is soon to be organized in New York, and that all amateur clubs desirous of becoming connected with such an organization will send a notice to that effect, directed to the Secretary of the Amateur National Association, New York, care of the Sunday Mercury. The object is to have a convention of the amateur clubs, and to establish a code of playing rules of their own. It is desirable that replies should be received at once. New York Sunday Mercury December 4, 1870 The initiatory steps for the organization of such an association were taken last week, and a meeting is to be held in Brooklyn this week to take further action, by the appointment of a committee to make arrangements for an amateur Convention. It should be understood that while the new association is to be organized on a basis solely in the interests of the amateur clubs–which form the great majority of baseball clubs throughout the country–no desire exists to make it in any way antagonistic to the professional class of the fraternity. The fact was made plainly apparent from the very inauguration of the professional system that the two classes could be [sic: should be “could not be”] governed harmoniously by the same association; and, in fact, the death blow was given to the old National Association, at the Convention of 1867, when the effort was made to legislate for both classes under one constitution and one code of regulations. Since the convention in question, the annual meetings have been controlled by a regular clique of professional club managers, and by incompetent and illiterate men at that; and the late Convention was but the crowning farce of a series of similar performances which were given in Boston and elsewhere of late years. With the establishment of an Amateur National Association will come the transformation of the old institution into a professional organization, an institution much needed by that class of ball-players, if only as a means of bringing about several requisite reforms, the principal one of which is to do away with revolving professionals, a class who make and break written engagements, and prove as false to their words, as they doubtless are dishonest in other respects. Through a professional National Association, too, some definite rules might be adopted governing the much-disputed question of the championship, and also to punish that fatal evil of professional playing–the custom of allowing games to go by default for betting-ring or third-game objects. In fact, did the professional clubs know what conserved their best interests, they would use their best efforts to promote the establishment of two National Associations, one professional and the other amateur. New York Sunday Mercury December 11, 1870 |
| Source | New York Sunday Mercury |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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