Clipping:Commentary on the exclusion of the Philadelphias from the National League
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| Date | Sunday, February 6, 1876 |
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| Text | It would be worse than useless to deny that this step has created a great deal of ill feeling, some eighteen professionals being thrown out of employment and the stockholders of the excluded clubs being heavy losers, but the advocates of the formation of a new association claim to have the best interest of the game at heart, and believing that the “end justifies the means,” wish to impart a fresh impulse to professionalism, so that it will attain a status in 1876 it has never yet reached. We regret to see that there has been an absurd attempt made to blame the Athletic Club for their action in this matter. They had no alternative but to join the League, or else they would have been also left out in the col. The constitution, by-laws and playing rules had been drafted at the meeting in Louisville last December, and the Athletics, at the meeting, could but give their consent thereto. In regard to the admission of the Philadelphia Club the Athletics would also have been over-ruled, as the remaining seven clubs were unanimous in opposing them on that point. |
| Source | Philadelphia Sunday Mercury |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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