Clipping:The Mets and the AA make peace
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| Date | Wednesday, December 23, 1885 |
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| Text | Later in the evening President McKnight, Lew Simmons, Sharsig and Mason met Mr. Williams and Manager Gifford at the Continental Hotel, and a little quiet talk was indulged in with the result that many misunderstandings were cleared away, and the way opened for a satisfactory settlement of the difficulty. All of the gentlemen seemed inclined at once to meet each other more than half way, and the result was that finally the Athletic Club people and President McKnight expressed themselves as satisfied that the court was right, that injustice had been done Mr. Wiman and that they were in favor of making amends and of reinstating the Metropolitan Club. Mr. Barnie was not present, he having gone to New York immediately after the court's adjournment, but it is believed that he is in favor of this course. It is believed that the other members of the Association will also be agreeable at any rate all the clubs will at once be communicated with by Mr. McKnight, and another meeting called in perhaps a week (the last meeting, under the ruling of the Court, being illegal), for this city, at which the Metropolitan Club will be represented and treated as if nothing had happened. So mote it be. The Sporting Life December 23, 1885 [reporting on the AA special meeting of 12/28] Erastus Wiman, who purchased the franchises of the Metropolitan Base Ball Club, of New York, clinched his recent victory in the courts over the American Association last night. The Mets were admitted to full membership, with all the rights and privileges appertaining thereto. It was an unpleasant dose for the other seven clubs of the Association to swallow, but they gulped it down, with a wry face, as prescribed by Judge Thayer, even to the dregs at the bottom of the cup. ... It took about four hours for the Association to reach the foregoing determination. ... The regular meeting was not held until nearly eleven o’clock. For three hours before that hour the club representatives, other than the Mets’, conferred together as to what their course should be. The scheme of forming a new association, without the Mets, was discussed at length, but dropped as being inadvisable. One lawsuit was all they cared for, and it was decided to go on with the business just the same as if the Mets had never been expelled. The Philadelphia Times December 29, 1885 |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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