Clipping:Outside clubs the equal of the League
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| Date | Sunday, April 22, 1877 |
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| Text | ...there are at least three non-League Clubs about as strong as most of the League teams. … It is time that base-bal. fanciers should begin to recognize the fact that in the Lowells, Indianapolis, Syracuse Stars, Alleghenys and Tecumsehs we have clubs little, if any, inferior to half the League organization,s which will intensify the interest that was felt in base-ball circles last year. Cincinnati Enquirer April 22, 1877 Heretofore, or until last season, the National Association and league was supposed to and did include pretty much all of the first-class base ball talent in the country. But affairs have changed within a twelvemonth, and today may be found a half dozen non-league nines almost as strong as those in the league, and there are a half dozen more powerful non-league organizations. Three games in four the non-league Hoosiers of Indianapolis have won from the skillful St. Louis. Six games have the latter won from the Memphis Reds, but by small odds in most cases. The Bostons have met only three nines of any note and barely escaped defeat in two of four games, and this at the opening of the season. Games between league clubs must continue to be the chief attraction, because the national championship is at stake in the struggles, but games between other of the professional clubs will be just as entertaining this year, so far as meritorious play is concerned. Boston Herald April 22, 1877 |
| Source | Cincinnati Enquirer |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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