Clipping:Boston Club ownership 3
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| Date | Wednesday, January 4, 1888 |
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| Text | Harry Wright still owns one share of stock in the Boston Club. A. H. Soden owns 22 shares; W. H. Conant, 23; J. B. Billings, 23; A. J. Chase, George H. Lloyd, F. F. Roundy, E. A. Pope, G. B. Hart, George B. Appleton and C. B. Corey, one each. The Sporting Life January 4, 1888 The Boston Base Ball Association has seen some changes during the past year, and as the wind is blowing now it will be out of existence within a year hence. A year ago the triumvirs owned 60 of the 78 shares. Now they own 68 or more, and before many moons they will have absorbed still more of the stock owned by the one-share-apiece members. But right here comes another interesting point. There are four shares which the “three graces” cannot buy, as the owners have already begun a suit to make the treasurer show up the books, and to compel the declaring of a dividend. Now, there is one way in which these gentlemen can be frozen-out, leaving the Boston nine in the hands of the present directors, and notice that this scheme is going to be carried out was given at Wednesday's meeting. It is simply to wind up the corporation's affairs, sell out the ground and grand stand, and divide the proceeds pro rata. The franchise would not be marketable. What could anybody do with that ball ground and grand stand with no nine to put on it. The “pro rata dividend” would not be hardly enough to give a man a trip around the world, and when things were settled up the triumvirs would be sole owners of Boston's ball club. The Sporting Life January 4, 1888 |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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