Clipping:The St. Louis Reds shut down; the IA convention a failure
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| Date | Sunday, April 8, 1877 |
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| Text | Tom McNeary, of the St. Louis Reds, has thrown up the sponge, and will not put a nine in the field this season. This announcement will be received with regret by the many friends of the “ponies” who have so ably represented St. Louis in past seasons. Mr. McNeary did not allow the Reds to disband without carefully considering the situation. The International Convention at Pittsburg, he claims, was a failure, the only man who would stand up for the rights of the semi-professionals being Gorman, of the Tecumsehs. No sooner had the Convention concluded its labors than half a dozen of the Internationals joined the League Alliance, without waiting to see whether an obnoxious section of the agreement would be stricken out, as the Internationals had decided it should be. ... the Reds, were they in existence, could, by the League Constitution, only play one League club in St. Louis–the Brown Stockings–other League teams being prohibited from entering their territory. For these and other reasons which carry pecuniary weight with them, the Reds have gone under. Chicago Tribune April 8, 1877, quoting the St. |
| Source | Chicago Tribune |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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