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| Date | Wednesday, November 7, 1888 |
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| Text | [from Joe Pritchard's column] Manager James Mutrie, fo the New York Club, said to your correspondent last Sunday at Sportsman's Park:--”Just say for me that if I ever engage in another world's series, the ball will stop rolling just as soon as the series is decided. Some of our boys were told, before the series bean, that they would be allowed to leave the club just as soon as the championship was decided, and several of our crack players held us to our promise. Ewing left for Cincinnati, Ward for the West to join the Australian party, Brown for his home in California, Connor was in bad form, and Keefe was not asked to go in the box again after last Friday's deciding game. After the series was decided, and we were declared the world's champions, we ought to have had matters so arranged that we could have picked up our traps and departed. The games played after the series had been won by us were mere farces. Our boys did not care whether they won them or not. It is a difficult task to handle a lot of ball players during the season, no matter how sharp you watch them, but since my men won the world's series and have caught up with so many acquaintances from all parts of the country it is a hard matter to keep them in good form. The Sporting Life November 7, 1888 a condemnation of the AA [from Frank Brunell's column] Certainly the Association ought to die a gradual death. And certainly it will and deserves to. The International Association is infinitely more preferable to it as a business institution, and I trust, for its own sake, that Aaron Stern is diplomatising—American Association for lying—about Buffalo and that it has not asked for a franchise. The towns, as towns, are no better in the Association than International, salaries double, expenses triple, and a club has to wear armor plate to keep the knives of the Association out of its vitals. There is no use for honesty, business sagacity or truth among the Association clubs. The ball is a different kind of ball from that played in the League. And it is nearly as good. But one club cannot trust another, and it is a general chase for the spoils from January 1 to December 31. And when the latter day comes Byrne has all the spoils that he can carry without spilling. That's the way it goes. The Sporting Life November 7, 1888 |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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