Clipping:Dissension within the AA; bootleg post-season games
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| Date | Sunday, October 1, 1882 |
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| Text | There is brewing just now within the American Association ranks something that promises to give trouble of the liveliest description. The champion club, the Cincinnati, is in a rebellious attitude, and liable to get into a position that will make expulsion possible. There has been a manifest disposition in the Pork city to have the Association operated in the interest of the club there, and now the desire of a fresh young lawyer of that city to become the boss—the Hurlbut as it were—of the Americans, has manifested itself stronger than ever. The Cincinnati club have arranged to play with the Cleveland and Providence clubs. During the season, it will be remembered, there was trouble about players taken by the League from the Americans. The Cincinnati club alone carried that trouble, in the case of Wise, to the extent that made it necessary for the Association to enact such rules as forbid its clubs to play with the League teams which have recognized the right of theft of players. To get around this rule the Cincinnati people propose to discharge their players and then hire them over, outside of the Association rules. President McKnight, of the American Association, said last night that the proceeding would be outrageous and unlawful, and should it be persisted in, he would be earnestly in favor of expelling the club. He has been in correspondence with the Cincinnati people and notified them of this view of the case. They put in the plea that they will have players on salary half a month with nothing to do if this is not accomplished. Now Cincinnati having cleared $12,000 to $15,000 this year can afford to have some idle weeks, but they could easily have filled up the time spoken of with any or all of the other Association clubs. So Mr. McKnight wrote them, but in response received an emphatic statement that they were going to proceed with their plan. They alleged that the Athletics and St. Louis would do the same thing. President McKnight wrote to both these clubs, and yesterday received a letter from Simmons pronouncing the story a lie as far as his club was concerned, and expressing his determination to aid in expelling any club which would be so false. The Cincinnati people are certainly acting peculiarly, in view of the trouble they caused earlier in the year on the other side of this subject. It is reported that one Stearns, a backer for the club, and Caylor, the Secretary, are at the bottom of the whole thing, expecting to make some money out of the snap. The Philadelphia Item October 1, 1882, quoting the Pittsburg Despatch. |
| Source | Philadelphia Item |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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