Clipping:The League should include every professional club, with multiple divisions
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| Date | Sunday, January 7, 1877 |
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| Text | In its beginning the ideas of the League were too narrow. They have been expanded, but yet there is a deal of room for improvement. It is not, as it indirectly claims to be, an association for the general improvement and elevation of baseball playing; its objects are too straightened and its legislation too selfish. Every professional club in the country should be at once admitted into the League. It should be a society for mutual protection by means of laws which shall react beyond its own circle with a negative force. Let every professional club throughout the country pay a membership fee and have a vote in the election of officers; make the laws binding on all clubs, and on all players, with a penalty of expulsion, which, in that case, will mean utter ruin as far as baseball is concerned; for when all are League clubs there will be no money to be earned outside of the League. Divide the League clubs into two or, let us say, three classes, each with a championship of its own, with representative members all over the country. Let there be a regular fixed handicap between the classes, so that when a club of one class should play one of another, the force of the handicap shall bring them on an equality. ... The League, as it now stands, is a powerful and self-asserting minority. The League should be an overwhelming and irrefragable majority. |
| Source | New York Sunday Mercury |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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