Clipping:The championship series increased from five to nine games

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Date Sunday, September 15, 1872
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...a meeting of the Judiciary Committee was held, and it was decided to increase the number of competitive games to nine. It was a self-assumed prerogative on the part of this committee, and deemed by many an arbitrary action. They called the meeting without previous notice, and called it a meeting of the National Association. It was understood that this was done to settle a dispute between the Athletics, of Philadelphia, and Baltimores, of Baltimore. In legislative parlance the committee railroaded the rule with regard to the games through, and all interested here were obliged to shoulder this action without complaint. The Boston Club voted against this arbitrary action, but were overridden, and, to prove their entire willingness to contest the championship even under adverse circumstances, came here [Philadelphia] to-day to play the fifth game with the Athletics.

Source New York Herald
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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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