Clipping:The Knickerbockers withdraw from the NABBP
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| Date | Sunday, July 3, 1870 |
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| Text | The fraternity will be surprised to learn that the Knickerbocker Club, of New York, has formally withdrawn from the National Association, and that the National Club, of Albany, and other amateur clubs, will shortly follow suit. This action is the most important taken by any club since the organization of the association, and in its results must necessarily have an important bearing on the future interests of the game. The fact is the reputable clubs of the fraternity have become so disgusted with the evils which seem to be inherent in professionalism, that they have at last come to the conclusion that as they cannot control the class in question, to an extent sufficient to keep them respectable and honorable members of the fraternity, they will withdraw from all association with them. Of course this movement of the leading amateur clubs is simply a forerunner of the establishment of a National Association on a strictly amateur footing, one rule of which will be the prohibition of match games with professional nines, and another rule the entire repudiation of every form of professional ball-playing. That the Knickerbockers will soon have plenty of indorsers of their action in other amateur clubs there is not the slightest doubt, so that by next fall the probability is that there will not be a sufficient number of clubs left in the National Association to call a convention, unless the professionals have one of their own. |
| Source | New York Sunday Mercury |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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