Clipping:Rumors of League interference with the Association; League bullying tactics
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| Date | Sunday, August 14, 1887 |
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| Text | American Association officials have at last become suspicious of the good intentions of the National League. Various rumors regarding the attitude of the latter toward two or three of the Association clubs have startled the members of the younger organization. These are but re-echoes of the warnings given by The Times time and time again. Not only has the League been charged with tampering with St. Louis and Cincinnati, but the “Mets” also have had a well-baited hook thrown to them. The secession of such clubs as these from the Association ranks could not be anything else but a death blow. The circuit could be filled out with smaller cities, but the American Association could never hope to regain the proud rank its present circuit entitles it to. The League scheme is said to be to induce Erastus Wiman to purchase the franchise and players of the Detroit Club, and transfer the latter to the Metropolitans. The latter would then be placed in Brooklyn to play against the present Association club. This would, of course, break the national agreement. But what does the League care for the national agreement, the reserve rule or any other bulwark of the game? The League imagines itself to be the strongest. It has always led in legislation, and it will break the national agreement if it is necessary to serve its own ends, and then offer a substitute in the blandest manner possible with the expectation that the American Association will acquiesce in it after a little bluster. This has been the League’s experience with the Association in the past, but whether the Association will allow itself to be hoodwinked in the future is something the League will have to find out. |
| Source | Philadelphia Times |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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