Clipping:Cincinnati tests the waters for a new league
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| Date | Sunday, October 31, 1880 |
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| Text | The Cincinnati Base Ball Club on Tuesday sent out a call for a meeting to be held at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, on Thursday, Nov. 4, the object being to form an independent league of the base ball clubs on a liberal policy and a home-rate, free-tariff plan; that is, each club will be allowed to regulate its own affairs and rates of admission to its grounds. The New York Metropolitan Club, the Washington Club, Buffalo Club and Albany Club have been asked to send representatives to the meeting. Pittsburg, Philadelphia, Detroit and possibly Baltimore, it is expected, will get up clubs and join the new league. Base ball sentiment here has been entirely against the old league and in favor of the new departure. The Cincinnati Club has withdrawn its application for readmission to Hurlburt's [sic] league. As the League, the only professional organization in the country, will not admit more than eight clubs to membership, efforts are being made to organize an independent League for next season in order to allow such cities as Cincinnati, St. Louis, Louisville, Indianapolis, Detroit, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Baltimore, Washington, Syracuse and Albany to put strong teams in the field. Philadelphia Item October 31, 1880 The following circular, addressed by the Executive Committee of the Cincinnati Club, has been sent to the presiding officials of the professional baseball clubs of New York, Washington, Buffalo, Albany, Detroit, Pittsburg, Philadelphia, and other cities where there is any prospect of the organization of a new professional club for 1881. The circular is the initial step to a new movement in professional playing, which bids fair to have a very important bearing on the pecuniary welfare of professional baseball stock-companies for 1881. Cincinnati, Oct. 26, 1880. To ______: You are hereby invited to send a delegate to a meeting of baseball clubs to be held at the Fifth-avenue Hotel, New York, Nov. 4, at noon, there to form an independent League on a liberal policy, and with the right of each club to regulate its own tariff. Albany, Washington, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Buffalo, and Detroit are expected to be represented in the new League. Wire your acceptance to Col. L. A. Harris, Cuvier Club-rooms, Cincinnati, Ohio, Executive Committee Cincinnati B. B. Club. New York Clipper November 6, 1880 |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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