Clipping:Outside exhibition games
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| Date | Saturday, January 17, 1880 |
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| Text | The restriction on clubs in this restrict [playing exhibition games with outside clubs] which has characterized the League rules has been costly each season, but especially was it so in 1879. while it is desirable that the clubs which enter for the championship-pennant should be debarred from playing any games with one another until each has completed its championship schedule-games, it is short-sighted policy to allow any other restriction. There is no doubt that the playing of exhibition games by the National championship teams of 1879 before they had finished their championship schedule-games materially weakened the attractive power of each club which engaged in such games. There was no interest while there remained regular championship games to be played but this, of course, need not interfere with a championship team's playing outside clubs on off-days. The narrow-minded policy of the League in this respect has resulted from the simple fact that the prominent Western clubs had no outside teams to play with like the Eastern League teams had, and therefore they declined to allow the latter to participate in a profitable series of matched in which they themselves could not engage. |
| Source | New York Clipper |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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