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Pro Clubs to Meet in March, National Association Starts Its Fade
| Salience | Prominent |
|---|---|
| Tags | Baseball Professionalism, Championship GamesBaseball Professionalism, Championship Games |
| Location | |
| City/State/Country: | New York, NY, United States |
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| Game | Base BallBase Ball |
| Immediacy of Report | Contemporary |
| Age of Players | AdultAdult |
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| Text | "The appointed meeting of the Secretaries of the professional clubs, announced to take place in New York on the 17th of March, St. Patrick's Day, has been changed into a convention of the professionals, and the meeting will settle not only the dates of all the matches for the season, but also the championship question. The best thing they can do is to organize an association of professional clubs at once. . . . "Mr. Chadwick resigned all connection to the National Association last October. . . . To the Excelsior club in this city [Brooklyn] is due the credit of inaugurating the movement for an amateur association . . . ." |
| Sources | Brooklyn Eagle, February 28, 1871. |
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| Comment | Richard Hershberger, 2/28/2021: This column "tacitly acknowledges that the old National Association is dead. Or perhaps it is a nail in the coffin to make sure it stays that way. The National Association met last December just as it had for years. It adopted rules revisions, elected officers, and so on. From a procedural perspective, it is chugging along as always. But it is in fact dead. The corpse will twitch a little bit, but there will never be any discussion of holding the convention next December." "The discussion of the upcoming meeting of March 17 is portentous. It was originally called by Nick Young, secretary of the Olympics of Washington, so the professional clubs could coordinate their schedules. The idea wasn't to set up a detailed schedule, but so that a club going to, for example, Chicago could be confident that the Chicago Club wasn't in Boston at the time. The secretary of the Chicago Club has suggested upgrading the meeting to also set up a formal championship system for the professionals." From 150 Years Ago in baseball FB posting Edit with form to add a comment |
| Query | Did the March 17 date hold up? Was it held in NYC? Was St. Patrick's Day an extra special day in the 1870s? Was Chadwick's departure a matter of controversy? Why? Edit with form to add a query |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Submission Note | FB Posting, 2/28/2021 |
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1871.12 Pro Clubs to Meet in March, National Association Starts Its Fade"
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