Clipping:An analysis of the AA
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| Date | Tuesday, February 28, 1882 |
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| Text | ...the new professional organization called the American Base Ball Association marks its opening into life with the announcement that it will allow beer selling and Sunday playing on its club grounds, In fact, it has been organized solely in the interests of the Cincinnati Club. It also differs in an important point from the League, by adopting as its rule of gate money sharing that each club shall take all the money received at the gate on its own grounds paying to visiting clubs, in lieu of the share hitherto granted, a fixed sum of $65 a match. Such a rule is tantamount to the exclusion of visits from Eastern teams to Western cities, as the traveling expenses alone would exceed the specified sum received. The new association ran against a snag when they undertook to engage players in their team who were under the ban of the League. No matter whether such players were unjustly punished by the League or not, if the new association desired to carry out amicable intentions in their intercourse with the League, they went to work to do it in a very roundabout way, to say the least. It is to the interests of the League that ll professional clubs outside of its own ranks should be under the control of some national association or other, as by such means are recruits for the League army to be secured in the future; but it is not likely that they are going to recognize an organization which begins its existence by recognizing players as eligible who cannot play in any League team. The new association is to meet in Philadelphia in March, and it is to be hoped that very different legislative action will be taken to that which marked the Cincinnati Convention, or it will be far more to the interests of outside clubs to join the League Alliance than to become members of an association which practically throws them out of the profitable intercourse they would otherwise have with League teams. |
| Source | Brooklyn Daily Eagle |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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