Clipping:Spalding on a single consolidated league
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| Date | Wednesday, July 13, 1887 |
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| Text | [from an interview of Spalding] In the first place the matter of consolidation is in exactly the same state it has been in for six months past, save that the demonstrated superiority of the St. Louis and Baltimore clubs have made it pretty clearly apparent, particularly as to Von der Ahe's team, that they are out of their class in the Association. At no time since the matter of consolidation has been considered or proposed has the time for it been considered to propitious. I cannot say, on the whole, though, that I am as anxious for it as many newspaper correspondents have represented me to be. The League is, without question, the greatest athletic and amusement organization of its kind in the world to-day. Look where you will and find any organization if you can with an aggregate salary list of $300,000 a year and expenses of fully three-quarters of a million. Point out any enterprise that can draw 138,000 people to its performances in a single day, and [illegible] it is a greater organization that the National League of American Ball Clubs. There is no comparison that I can see between the League and the Association. Von der Ahe or Von der Ahe's friends in St. Louis have been saying through the newspapers that a money consideration of $25,000 or $50,000 had been held out to him to bring his team into the League. To the devil with such talk; it is cut absolutely from whole cloth. If any such consideration has been mentioned, it has been from Mr. Von der Ahe to the League, and not from the League to Mr. Von der Ahe, and, do you suppose for a moment that the League has failed to understand that fact? |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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