Clipping:The improvement in professional clubs
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| Date | Saturday, July 24, 1880 |
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| Text | In these days of better trained professional stock-company teams it is almost impossible to get together a nine which would be invincible. In 1869, when the old Cincinnati team recorded its unequaled season of uninterrupted freedom from defeat—only a drawn match prevented a succession of victories from the start to the finish—it encountered nines composed mostly of crude or unreliable material in the professional class, and unpracticed nines in the amateur. Against these the Cincinnatis presented the best-trained professional team then known to the fraternity. Now we have half a dozen just as well managed as the Cincinnatis of 1869 were, and hence the task of going through a season now without a defeat is almost impossible. New York Clipper July 24, 1880 dual membership in the League Alliance and any other organization prohibited; the end of the National Association? ...the Nationals have joined the League Alliance “for protection,” and thereby have been obliged to resign from the National Association, and consequently forfeit all claim to the National championship. … The law of the Alliance referring to clubs joining it says: “No club which is in any other organization of clubs than the League or League Alliance shall be entitled to membership.” So, good-bye to the Washington Nationals as members of the National Association or as candidates for the National championship, and thus ends “the strange, eventful history” of the Association. New York Clipper July 24, 1880 The Nationals, we are told, have not resigned from the National Association, and are therefore still claimants for the pennant, their rivals being the Rochesters. New York Clipper August 7, 1880 |
| Source | New York Clipper |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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