Clipping:The Northwest League and the NA
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| Date | Sunday, March 2, 1879 |
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| Text | [a letter to the editor of the New York Sunday Mercury] In your issue of February 8th I notice an item to the effect that if the Western gentlemen who recently formed an Association at Rockford desire to further their own interests they can best do so by joining the “Internationals.” I infer from its tenor that it is from the pen of Mr. Williams. Now it is not my purpose to open up a controversy between said gentleman and myself, although I received a very kind invitation to joint the Internationals and be “benefited” thereby. I wrote Mr. Williams declining, stating as my reason the utter impracticability and consequent financial failure that would surely follow should we attempt to make trips East, and cited to him as an instance the way certain Clubs of his Association “”jumped in” and made trips, received the $75 guarantee per game, went home and disbanded, and pocketed the proceeds. Now, Mr. Editor, I would ask in plain English, where are the benefits to be enjoyed by belonging to such an Association? In what way would we “further our interests?” I would add that Rockford has organized and maintained a better Club, and has more players who are now holding positions in nearly all the League Clubs, than all of the “Internationals” put together, and this, too, before the “Internationals” were even thought of. We are not novices in the base-ball business, and we think that we can take care of ourselves and regulate our own business, rather than link ourselves to an uncertainty. Truly yours, James F. McKee President N.W. League |
| Source | Cincinnati Enquirer |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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