Clipping:Advocacy for and obstacles to the one league plan; Spalding on the plan
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| Date | Wednesday, June 1, 1887 |
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| Text | [from Caylor's column] ...right here I may add that the one League idea is assuming plausible shape without any extra effort. The idea is not a new one, nor has it been thought of only recently. Mr. Von der Ahe talked about it over a year ago to me on the Desbrosses street ferry, and at the time told me he believed it to be a good plan and one that would some day have to be adopted. I can say definitely to-day that there is, at this time, twice the advocacy of this plan among American Association and League clubs than there was a month ago. There are are enough clubs in the two associations now ready to advocate the plan in a rough outline to carry it into effect next fall, and the Detroit Club is one of the strongest believers in the scheme of all. But so many obstacles to an agreement will come up if the plan is ever brought up for discussion that it is extremely doubtful whether such an agreement could be reached. The League would have to make concessions on Sunday playing and liquor privileges before the plan would be at all feasible. There would also be a squabble over the disposal of players from the three or four rejected clubs. The Sporting Life June 1, 1887 [from an interview of Spalding by an unidentified Chicago reporter] It is only a question of time when some sort of a union will be made between the National League and the American Association. I don’t think, however, that such a union will come right away... The question of Sunday games is a stumbling block for one thing. The Association plays Sunday games, while the League does not. A still greater objection is the feeling the would undoubtedly arise in the public mind as to the fairness of the contest. The public is inclined to be critical as it is now, and with the clubs in one big pool, there would be ground for the idea that hippodroming was going on. There ought to be some central authority which all would recognize, and to that extent some such plan would be a good thing. However, the matter has made no progress whatever since it was first broached, for the reason that it has received no particular attention. The Philadelphia Times June 5, 1887 |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
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