Clipping:League and Association preparation for the Brotherhood
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| Date | Saturday, October 8, 1887 |
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| Text | [from June Rankin’s column] Young players are going to be in great demand this fall. The League and Association will be chasing them with scap nets, as they will compose the playing strength of these two leading professional bodies next season if the Brotherhood continue obstinate. National Police Gazette October 8, 1887 Brooklyn Club buys out the Mets, Wiman out of baseball The Metropolitan Base Ball Association of New York, heretofore owned and controlled by Messrs. Erastus Wiman, Walter H. Watrous and others, has been purchased outright by Messrs. F. A. Abell, J. J. Doyle and C. H Byrne, of the Brooklyn Club, as trustees, acting for a syndicate of gentlemen in and out of the Association. The sum actually paid in cash to Erastus Wiman for the entire stock, franchise, players, and all the belongings of the Metropolitan Club, was twenty-five thousand dollars. This seems quite a sum of money to pay out, but the Brooklyn men evidently knew a good thing when they aw it, and were ready and able to plank the money down. A base ball franchise in New York City, carrying with the the “trade mark” of the name “Metropolitan Base Ball Club,” and nucleus of what can be made, with proper handling, as good a team as any in the Association, is worth every dollar these enterprising men have paid for it, and when they have accomplished their purposes, there will be no difficulty in finding ready purchasers for it. The Sporting Life October 12, 1887 |
| Source | National Police Gazette |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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