Clipping:The abuses of the state association system

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Date Sunday, March 26, 1871
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The Amateur Association have...struck out all reference to State associations; experience having shown that under the existing position of baseball affairs the best system of representation is that by individual clubs, for the system of State Association delegates has been proved to be open to gross corruption. In fact, under the latter system any unscrupulous knave was afforded opportunities for organizing a bogus State Convention, and through that medium, of entering the National Convention with a delegation powerful enough to control the vote of the body.

Source New York Sunday Mercury
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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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