Clipping:Prospects for the League and Association
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| Date | Wednesday, October 23, 1889 |
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| Text | [editorial matter] According to latest reports, the League will, in addition to its trouble with its players, have a threatened breach in its circuit to repair, as the reports from Washington are anything but reassuring, and it is becoming a question whether the Capital will be represented in the National League next season. Ordinarily this would cause the League little concern, as the American Association always affords a fair field for spoliation and the League, true to its instincts and traditions, would have little hesitation in helping itself to whatever it wanted. But with the controversy with its players unsettled and a possible revolt staring it in the face, the League would, of course, consider long and consider well before invoking the open or secret hostility of the Association, whose moral influence, at least, will be needed if the threatened rupture with the Brotherhood should come. … For the Association the situation is also made precarious by the uncertain attitude of two of its principal clubs, Cincinnati and Brooklyn. Otherwise it is, however, in much better shape than the League, by reason of the absence of any entangling and irritating legislation, such as the classification, rule, the non-existence within its ranks of an exacting and threatening players' organization, and the exemption from a repressive contract like the Brotherhood contract; and if it had but the wisdom, craft, business sense and, above all, the faculty of sinking personal animosities for the common good in a pinch, that the League possesses, and had withal a forceful executive, like Mr. Krauthoff, for instance, it could, from the present situation of the League and the Brotherhood, and the base ball profession generally, evolve such a system and wring such concessions as to make it the chief factor in base ball, and, in time, the leading organization. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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