Clipping:Purported secret negotiations between the AA and PL
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| Date | Sunday, September 7, 1890 |
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| Text | [reporting an informal meeting between the AA and PL] [quoting the NY Sun] One thing that was considered at the meeting was whether the Players' League and American Association clubs will play exhibition games after the championship season has ended. Every club was represented by proxy, and all excepting Baltimore were in favor of these games. As it requires a unanimous vote, no decision was reached. It is said that the Association people at this meeting insisted on the return of every player taken from them by the Players' League, and on this rock negotiations were stranded. This was apparently the basis of the whole transaction on which St. Louis, Louisville and the Athletic people would bolt to the Players' League. Should these Association clubs join the Players' League it would open up a field where new players could be secured, and the National league clubs would be made materially stronger. The National League magnates are moving along quietly, not a ripple disturbing their actions toward the American Association which would give that body even the slightest pretext to break the national agreement. This was clearly demonstrated in the Daily case. Manager Barnie, of the Baltimore Club, who was in Philadelphia, was very outspoken about the whole matter. “I received positive assurance from Phelps and Von der Ahe, before Baltimore was readmitted into the Association, that no such deal as is spoken of had been made with the Players' League or would be. It was upon their statement that the Baltimore Club once more became an Association member. Consequently, you see I do not believe any of these yarns. If Phelps, Von der Ahe and Whitaker have made any deal they must have done so on their own responsibility. If they have made a deal, it is an act of treachery to the Association and myself, Why, Phelps and Von der Ahe told me only lately that they had been approached by the Players' League, but had declined to make a deal. |
| Source | Philadelphia Times |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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