Clipping:Tension between the League and Alliance clubs
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| Date | Wednesday, March 8, 1882 |
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| Text | [reporting on the NL special meeting] All negotiations between the four Eastern League Clubs and the two [Alliance] clubs for games in the latter cities in April, were then suspended, pending a settlement of the terms to be given the League Clubs. The Metropolitans and Philadelphias prepared a schedule of games for April, assigning to each Club certain dates, and offering 45 per cent. of the gate receipts, without the usual guarantee of $100 made obligatory during the League championship season from May to October. The League clubs demanded the guarantee with the privilege of 50 per cent. of the gate receipts and eight agreed to accept nothing less. They then said that if Managers Day and Reach refused to give the guarantee they would be left severely alone, and at the special meeting of the League such action would be taken as would give League clubs the privilege of playing with out than League Alliance Clubs in New York and Philadelphia. The special legislation enacted for the benefit of Day and Reach seemed to operate badly before the season opened. The subject came up to-day, but did not provoke much discussion. No vote was taken, and no question was raised, it being informally decided that the League amendment touching the same should be lived up to. Cincinnati Enquirer March 8, 1882 The management of the Metropolitan Base-ball Club are still firm in their resolve not to yield to the demands of the League in reference to guarantees during April. Therefore it is not likely that any League Clubs will visit this city during the coming month. This movement, it is said, will be of greater injury, financially, to the League Clubs than to the Metropolitans, as the latter will by no means lie idle. The Colleges nines will draw fully as well as the League Clubs, if not better, and Manager Mutrie has not been slow in taking advantage of this fact. … The Providence Club have been granted the refusal of the 12th, 13th and 14th, but if the dates are not closed within the next few days they will be given to the Baltimore and Athletics Clubs, who are now negotiating for them. Cincinnati Enquirer March 23, 1882, quoting the New York Herald |
| Source | Cincinnati Enquirer |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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