Clipping:A proposed round robin tournament for the championship
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| Date | Saturday, March 12, 1870 |
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| Text | All the fraternity will rejoice to learn that we are to have a grand base ball tournament every year henceforth, in which the contested question of the right ownership of the whip-pennant will be satisfactorily settled. The idea is to have a week’s play in which the four leading clubs of the country would meet each other, thereby playing six games, the winner of the greatest number to be declared the champions of the season. ... In case of a tie, there would be a supplementary match. ... This tourney bids fair to be the solution to the knotty question, which club is entitled to the championship this season. At any rate it will be the great baseball event of the year. The first tourney will be held in the metropolis; but whether on the Capitoline, Union, or Tremont Grounds it not yet settled ,and will not be until the season sets in. Should there be a promise of a very large assemblage then the largest field, will, of course, be selected. In 1871, the tourney will be held in Philadelphia; In 1872, in Cincinnati and then in Boston, then changing thus changing the locality each year. National Chronicle March 12, 1870 [see also NC 4/2/70 for a refinement to this proposal.] |
| Source | National Chronicle |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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