Clipping:Talk of excluding co-op clubs from the NA
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| Date | Saturday, August 23, 1873 |
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| Text | There is considerable talk among the men who invest in baseball stock companies in regard to taking action in opposition to the entry of co-operative nines into the championship arena. The interests of the two classes of organizations in the professional fraternity have been found by experience to clash, owing to the one party having vested money interests at stake, while the other works with playing capital only. There is no doubt that if the championship arena were confined to regular salaried nines, and fewer games were played, the result would be more profitable.. Another result of such a narrowing of the professional circle would be that more interest would centre in the local club nines; and moreover, there would probably be less chance of players being tempted to enter into fraudulent arrangements. When a player is in command of a regular salary from a responsible club, he has something to do to sustain himself creditably in his position. No so the player who is dependent on the precarious receipts of a co-operative organization. Many believe from the experience of the present season that the co-operative system of professional ball-playing is a failure and an injury to the regular clubs. |
| Source | New York Clipper |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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