Clipping:Early Players League rumor
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| Date | Sunday, September 8, 1889 |
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| Text | A wild and woolly rumor has reached here from Cleveland that Albert Johnson, a street car man of that city, is at the head of a scheme to corner the baseball market this fall and control the whole business next season. It is said that Johnson's scheme is to sign agreements with all of the league players and place clubs in Boston, New York, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Chicago, Cleveland, Cincinnati, and one other city not yet named, ignoring the league altogether. A gentleman who has just returned from Cleveland says that Johnson, who is a man of means and the wildest kind of a crank on baseball, has actually secured the names of several prominent brotherhood layers, and is now in the east working on his ponderous scheme. It is further claimed that John Ward, the New York shortstop, is giving the Cleveland man his assistance. The gentleman from Cleveland asserts that this is the mysterious business on which the brotherhood has been working for several months, which has been referred to in some of the metropolitan papers. |
| Source | Chicago Tribune |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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