Clipping:AA opposition to the reserve
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| Date | Monday, March 12, 1883 |
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| Text | [reporting on the AA meeting] They all appear willing, except St. Louis, to adopt the agreement [with the NL]; but it is quite probable that that portion referring to the reserve policy will be killed. The delegates seem to look at the latter in the light of a strong concession to the league. They they do not like, and many of them do not propose to swallow any crow. Cincinnati Enquirer March 12, 1883 A year ago the new association started out as brave as a lion, determined to walk straight through to victory, league or no league. To-day it threw off its disguise, and is now nursing the hind teat most meekly. The league scoffed and laughed at it when first organized, and heaped the greatest of indignities upon its youthful head until the stripling bade fair to down the adult. Then casme the struggle. The league with clinched teeth said this American Association is becoming too strong. It is eating into our prestige; either our own organization or it must be in the lead. 'Twas a brief battle. The elder and more wily body cast the bait, and the yearling grabbed it, swallowing it entirely and without a grin. It was perhaps the finest exhibition of eating the crow that history has yet known. Men who have always been opposed to the league, who have fought against reserve policies, &c., and who had sworn eternal allegiance to any order that would oppose its forward march to success, this day fell upon their knees, childlike in their suppliance, and rechewed all that they had spat out before. Cincinnati Enquirer March 13, 1883 |
| Source | Cincinnati Enquirer |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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