Clipping:Sterne's assessment of the Cincinnati Club sale and PL prospects
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| Date | Saturday, November 15, 1890 |
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| Text | [from an interview of Harry Sterne] “The League has won the battle,” said he, “and I am honestly glad of it. The purchase of the Cincinnati Club actually broke the Brotherhood. They had to rake and scrape to raise the money, and if it had not been used here might have formed a fund to keep up the fight. I hope the League intends to do nothing rash. It looks as if the plan was to expel Cincinnati. We did not resign, for the simple reason that we had nothing to resign. To all intents and purposes Cincinnati's League franchise is in other hands, and if the purchasers of our stock violated League law they are responsible. Mr. Byrne advised me to grab at the chance to sell if the money was really offered, and I think a majority of either League or Brotherhood managers would have done the same thing had the opportunity presented itself. We have been called traitors. It is an unfair attack. With the same reason the charge could be made today against the sensible men in the Players' League who are now being applauded by all who love the game. |
| Source | The Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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