Clipping:The professionals control the NABBP convention
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| Date | Thursday, December 1, 1870 |
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| Text | The amateur interest found able defenders only in Mr. Heard of the Pastime Club, of Little Falls; Mr. Cantwell, of the National; Mr. Overbach of the Atlantic, of Missouri; Mr. Sterling of the Stars, and one or two others. New York, Illinois, Indiana, Pennsylvania, numbering eighteen votes, were devoted to the professional interest. Missouri, Massachussetts, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts and the District of Columbia, numbering ten votes, advocated the amateur interest. Louisiana was not allowed to vote on account of the delegate [Chadwick] the State had selected—a dead set being made against the Chairman of the Committee of Rules by the Wildey clique. The professional Clubs represented were the Mutuals, White Stockings, Athletics, Haymakers and the new Indianapolis Club. The only amateur Clubs of this State represented were the Stars and Alphas, of Brooklyn, Nationals, of Albany, Eagle and Oriental, of New York—both of whose delegates voted with Wildey throughout—and the Pastimes, of Little Falls. In fact, a more complete farce was never exhibited than was presented by the so-called Convention of the Base Ball Clubs of America. … Resolved, That this Association regard the custom of publicly hiring men to play the game of base ball as reprehensible and injurious to the best interests of the game. … The discussion was listed to by the delegates while acting as a Committee of the Whole. When it was over, they dissolved and reported the resolution back to the Convention to be acted upon, and when the screws were applied but nine of the delegates were found to favor the resolution...[including] Chadwick, the latter's vote not being recorded. There were seventeen votes against the amateur resolution, all from Illinois, Pennsylvania and Indiana, five from new York and one from Connecticut. |
| Source | Brooklyn Eagle |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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