Clipping:The AA talking points
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| Date | Saturday, January 7, 1882 |
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| Text | Secretary Williams of the American Association has recently been interviewed, and is of the opinion that the opposition of the League will rather benefit the former's clubs than otherwise. He also thinks that the results of a law price of admission and the adoption of a more liberal policy promise to make the American Association a formidable rival of the League. The moral ground assumed by the League as the ostensible cause of its action against the American Association is untenable. The Chicago Club entertained no such scruples against Sunday games two years ago, when it sent its team to California, and the Chicago-Buffalo-Cleveland combination have played almost every Sunday since Oct. 30 last. He thinks that the American Association also differs from the League in the fact that it is intended to be self-supporting, each club reaping the benefit of its own patronage, while the League is said to be “the retreat for indigent clubs, where rich relative support the poor ones.” President McKnight of the American Association has published a lengthy communication, from which we make the following extracts: “I can hardly comprehend the assurance of a few men representing ball clubs in a few cities of this country saying that no other clubs shall be allowed to exist except as hangers-on to them. Has it ever occurred to the egotists of the League that our six cities contain a population of 2,370,000, while their eight only foot up 1,516,000, and that the people of our cities are enthusiastic over prospects of having baseball again, while their people are somewhat sick of it? On Nov. 27 Hulbert could not see how one association of ball clubs could hurt another, wherein I agreed with him exactly, provided both were anxious to promote and elevate the game in honorable ways; but he has since concluded evidently that he has discovered modes of hurting another association, first, by trying to legislate us out of playing in New York and Philadelphia, and then by stealing our players. Perhaps United States law will teach him that it is superior to laws of the National League, and that contracts must be kept. I suppose the League expected to aggravate us so by this Troy outrage that we would commence hiring their black-listed and expelled players for revenge, and thus get the press and public down on us. We will do nothing of the kind. We can get plenty of good players, and we propose to be governed by honorable rules if others are not. |
| Source | New York Clipper |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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