Clipping:The professional convention
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| Date | Saturday, March 18, 1871 |
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| Text | A convention of delegates from the professional base ball clubs of the country was held a No. 840 Broadway last evening. At the time the call for the convention was sent out its objects were stated to be the settlement of the manner of achieving the title of champion club of the county, and the arrangement of the routes of the club tours during the season. But the action of the amateur clubs in withdrawing from the National Association, in which both professional and amateur clubs had been represented, and their organization of an exclusive convention, caused the scope of the Convention's duties to be enlarged, and, in the opinion of a majority of the delegates, made necessary the reorganization of the National Association on a professional basis. This idea was for a time combated by those delegates who did not conceive themselves to be clothed with power further than to carry out the original objects of the Convention, until a clause necessitating its approval by their clubs was appended to the resolution carrying it into effect. All the delegates, with the exception of Mr. Davidson, secretary of the Mutual Club, who withdrew for a time from the proceedings of the convention because of the “gabbling” of an officious director of his club, then voted for the passage of the resolution, and the convention became known as the “National Association of Professional Base Ball Players. |
| Source | New York Herald |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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