Clipping:Shenanigans to keep the championship in New York
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| Date | Sunday, August 1, 1869 |
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| Text | It seems as if a concerted effort was being made by the prominent New York and Brooklyn clubs to keep the nominal title of championship in their locality. Last season, the Athletics–through chicanery–were deprived of any chance of contending with the Unions of Morrisania and the Mutuals, for the title, and this season, the Eckfords–the present champions–decline meeting the Athletics until after they have played the Atlantics. The Athletics and Atlantics are the only tow first-class clubs in the country, who have any chance of winning the championship from the Eckfords, as all the other prominent clubs have commenced a series of games with the Eckfords before they became possessed of the title; and even if the Red Stockings should again defeat the Eckfords, they could not be champions, according to the absurd rule now in vogue. The giving of the precedence, therefore, to the Atlantics, in the playing of the two games, is manifestly unjust, and looks as if the Eckfords intended lending their assistance towards keeping the nominal title of championship in Brooklyn, without giving any other club a chance to win it. |
| Source | Philadelphia Sunday Mercury |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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