Clipping:Byrne denies any intention of jumping to the League; comparative strength of the AA and NL
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| Date | Wednesday, July 31, 1889 |
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| Text | [from an interview of Bryne] “Will you join the League if you win the Association pennant?” “I cannot understand what relationship our sinning the pennant has with our joining the League,” he replied. “We would joint the League just as quick if we finished third or fourth as if we won the pennant. That has nothing to do with the case whatever.” “Then there is some truth in the report that you will go into the older organization?” “Not in the slightest. Myself and partners have never discussed the situation. In the first place, the Brooklyn Club has never been asked to become a League member, and I assure you once and for all that we will never appear in the role of supplicants for the place. We have a strong club, a good city and plenty of resources. This the League knows, and if it wants us it will have to ask us. Even then I do not say we would accept, for we are well contented where we are. We have always done well in the Association, and it might not be a business policy to change our base of operations.” “Do you think the League is stronger in the matter of playing strength than the American Association?” “Not in the slightest particular. There is no difference in the strength of the two bodies. The Association is just as strong as the League, and I am free to say that I think the present Brooklyn team would stand as high, if not higher, in the League than it does in the Association., quoting the Cincinnati Enquirer |
| Source | The Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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