Clipping:Stern on the jump from the AA
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| Date | Wednesday, December 11, 1889 |
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| Text | [from Ren Mulford's column] [from an interview of Aaron Stern] The Association with its disgraceful squabbles and wrangles—the charges and countercharges that this club and that was running affairs—grew very distasteful to me, and Brooklyn shared that feeling with Cincinnati. It was only a question of time when the Association would be disrupted. If it had not died this year it would have been crippled as badly in '90. Brooklyn and Cincinnati both wanted places in the League. We desired to make the transfer together and the opportunity was presented. Had the League not accepted both cities at this time Brooklyn would certainly have purchased Washington's franchise for it had released Mr. Byrne from the pledge we had made to act in unison. The treatment Cincinnati and Brooklyn received from the combine left no other way open. Cincinnati would have followed Brooklyn just as soon as we could have purchased Indianapolis' franchise. That was the plan of campaign after the combine had shown its hand. The Association with all its bitter animosities is better dead than a source of continued strife detrimental to honest, clean ball—such as the League always has and always will play. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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