Clipping:Replacing Cleveland in the AA
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| Date | Wednesday, November 7, 1888 |
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| Text | [editorial matter] The American Association will apparently not find it quite so easy a matter to find a suitable successor for Cleveland as anticipated. The Buffalo Club has made no authorized official application for admission to the American Association, and the directory of the club is divided on the subject, the weight of numbers and opinion being, however, against leaving a certainty in the International Association for a decided uncertainty—entailing poor position, higher salaries and all round increase of expenses—in the American Association. Outside of buffalo the range of available cities, under the present financial pace, is limited. Detroit would fair no better in the Association than it did in the League; Toledo has been tried and found wanting and Columbus alone seems open. Milwaukee would be a good city, but an Eastern city is wanted, as Cleveland was classified and scheduled with the Eastern group, and in this section only Hartford, Newark and Jersey City seem available. The last named city is said to be anxious for a place in the Association, and to be making efforts in that direction. President John B. Day, of the New Yorks, is the reputed owner of the Jersey Club, and that fact fatally handicaps the club, as the American Association would hardly care to chance a repetition of Metropolitan Club experiences. A very strong sentiment is going up all round in favor of letting either Louisville or Baltimore out, strengthening the weaker clubs with the surplus players and going through the season with six well balanced clubs instead of adding an eighth weakling to the already too long list of tail-enders. And this may be the final solution to the problem at present vexing the unhappy American Association. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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