Clipping:Benefits of membership in the League versus the American Association
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| Date | Wednesday, January 12, 1887 |
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| Text | [from the Baltimore correspondent] So the league is now casting a covetous eye in the direction of Brooklyn. Well, now, what under the broad canopy of heaven can they offer to induce the bridge team to jump? Both organizations now have the same system of guarantee. They playing strength (and therefore the drawing properties), if not equal, have been practically demonstrated to be in favor of the younger body. Brooklyn can charge an admittance fee, and get it, too, of fifty cents in the Association as well as the League if the officials think it prudent to do so. There does not seem to be a single advantage to be gained by a transfer to the League. The club is doing well in the Association and apparently making money. Why they should they risk a leap in the dark which cannot possibly benefit them financially and which may will be for the worse. The uncertain tenure of any club in the League is not inviting. Club membership there is at the mercy of the other clubs, who may vote them out constitutionally, and just here is where a franchise in the Association is more stable and consequently of greater intrinsic value. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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