Clipping:Detroit bids to join the League; Baltimore equivocates
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| Date | Wednesday, February 5, 1890 |
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| Text | [reporting the NL special meeting 1/29-1/30] According to arrangement, ex-President Frederick K. Stearns, of the Detroit Club, appeared before the League to advocate an increase of its circuit to twelve clubs. Mr. Stearns was accompanied by James A. Marsh and President Mills of the International League, of Detroit, and President Harry Vonderhorst, of the Baltimore Club. Mr. Stearns told the delegates that Detroit would accept a League franchise if the circuit was increased to twelve clubs. The latter number would make it possible to make a much better schedule than with ten clubs. The increased percentage allowed to visiting club, Mr. Stearns argued, would make it possible for Detroit to support a first-class club. If Detroit was admitted another club would be needed in the East, and Baltimore could be had. President Vonderhorst said he did not know that Baltimore would make application for admission into the National League this season. “We are in the Atlantic Association,” said he, “And it would not be fair for us to desert that body now.” President A. G. Spalding, of Chicago, said he would just as leave have twelve clubs as ten, but an informal discussion among the delegates developed the fact that they were all against an increase. Then the subject was dropped. Neither Detroit nor Baltimore filed applications for membership. The Sporting Life February 5, 1890 The Detroit Club has not yet given up hopes of again figuring in a National League campaign, and Fred Stearns is still in the East laying pipes to accomplish that object. He has, of course, given up the idea of a twelve-club circuit and has set his machinery at work in another direction. He proposes to buy the franchise of one of the present members of the League and transfer it to Detroit. The objection point of his efforts is Washington. The Sporting Life February 12, 1890 |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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