Clipping:The Force case and the founding of the League
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| Date | Sunday, December 23, 1877 |
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| Text | A good deal has been said at odd times about the effect of the League on the honesty of players, but enough has not been said by half about the effect that body has had upon crooked managements. The year 1875 saw what may properly be called the acme of thievery in the most thievish city in the country, Philadelphia. The club called Philadelphia scarcely attempted to conceal their swindling, and, contrary to the usual custom, the management was the head and front of the rascality. The local papers rather approved of it, but the outside clubs saw that to fraternize with that gang would be to confess themselves at least friendly to thievery. The League was formed and killed the Philadelphia Club in thirty days. In about six months the Athletic Club followed it, and the scalps of those two concerns are among the proudest trophies in the League. It is clear that, whatever may have been the faults of the players, the League has killed off the pool-box managements. It is said that in the spring of 1875 two base-ball men sat in a Philadelphia hotel talking over the infamous decision in the Force case, and closed by pledging each other to put it out of the power of any more Sperings, or Concannons, or Hayhurts to steal either men or money. It took them only two years to do it, and it was thoroughly done. |
| Source | Chicago Tribune |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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