Clipping:Kansas City's prospects of staying in the League
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| Date | Wednesday, February 2, 1887 |
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| Text | Kansas City, notwithstanding her bluffing, knows very well that she must step down and out, and that nothing can save her. All talk of appealing to the law is nonsense, as the elastic League constitution provides every facility for a leagal bounce, not only of Kansas City, but any other club which the League wishes to be rid of. Chicago, New York, Boston or Philadelphia could be dropped by a two-thirds vote, and they could do not a thing to prevent it, so cleverly does the constitution now cover every point. Kansas City was shown all this at th eleast annual meeting of the League, and seeing the hopelessness of a fight acquiesced and even voted for Pittsburg’s admission. The club was given a chance to recoup itslef by the League’s waiving all right to the club’s players, and that the club can sell their releases to any club it chooses, in or out of the League. This is all the club has to sell, as the franchise is the property of the League, and the longer it persists in its fruitless opposition to the will of the League just so much less chance will it have to realize on its more desirable players. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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