Clipping:The argument against letting Detroit in the Association
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| Date | Wednesday, December 1, 1886 |
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| Text | [byline Caylor] [reporting on the AA special meeting 11/22 – 11/231886] The Association, in my opinion, is better off to-day with Cleveland to occupy the vacancy than they would have been with Detroit's big club in the breach. When I urged this from the first I was ridiculed, and yet before a year passes I will be vindicated. Detroit would have been a tremendous card, no doubt, and would have added many additional hundreds to the other clubs' treasuries during the opening days of next season, but there is more to consider in looking out for the good of base ball and the welfare of the Association than a temporary financial benefit to the various clubs. The work of this special meeting was not to provide against one month or one season, but will be felt for years to come. The Detroits have one of the greatest drawing cards in the country; that cannot be controverted. But there the advantages end. By the club's own confession Detroit alone cannot support such a club, and had they come into the Association they would have asked, and probably received, outside help. By the club's own confession Detroit alone cannot support such a club, and had they come into the Association they would have asked, and probably received, outside help. That would have necessitated the entire change of the guarantee system, which the League has just adopted, and which has worked so well in the Association from the start; would have necessitated an entire system of dividing gate receipts, for in the Association no special provision is granted to one club over another. The admission of Detroit, therefore, would have revolutionized the good and healthful guarantee system, to which the League has just come. Would the ends have justified the means? |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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