Clipping:Increasing the number of championship games
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| Date | Sunday, July 28, 1872 |
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| Text | At a special meeting of the National Association, held July 26, the following resolution was adopted: “Resolved, That In view of the fact that several of the clubs that commenced the season as competitors for the championship have disbanded, thereby reducing the number of games to be played, that the Championship Rules be so amended as to make the series for the championship nine instead of five games for the season of 1872.”New York Sunday Mercury July 28, 1872 It was stated that, in consequence of several of the clubs which entered for the Championship Pennant at the beginning of the season having been disbanded, the number of games it would be necessary to play would be reduced by nearly one hundred and fifty.This would so materially curtail the Championship series, that, instead of ending on the 1st of November, it would terminate about the middle of August.Of course, the interest in our National game might be kept up by a series of exhibition games; but, the public having so strongly manifested their distaste for, and disapprobation of, exhibition contests, it was thought better that, out of deference to public opinion, the Championship series should consist of nine games instead of five. |
| Source | New York Sunday Mercury |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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