Clipping:The history of the Brooklyn and Cincinnati jump
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| Date | Wednesday, February 26, 1890 |
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| Text | editorial matter] The interesting disclosures made during the attempted deal [to transfer Indianapolis players to New York], by President Brush, shed some light upon the inside history of the admission of Brooklyn and Cincinnati, and prove conclusively how correctly The Sporting Life sized up the situation from the day of the League meeting up to the present moment, and how impartial and just was the stand this paper took despite the freely expressed displeasure of the magnates and their shouters. Mr. Brush's admission corroborates the previous belief that the admission of Brooklyn and Cincinnati, so far from being a voluntary act of kindness to the two clubs which were alleged to be clamoring for admission in order to escape from the persecution of their fellow Association clubs, was really a preconcerted and well-defined movement to strengthen the League at the expense of the American Association, and if necessary of fellow League clubs. The strenuous objection of some of the League clubs to the proposed absorption of the two strongest clubs of a friendly organization and the measures taken to placate the internal opposition, even at the expense of guarantees to perpetuate a ten-club circuit, prove conclusively that the League scheme was to strengthen itself at any and all cost in utter disregard of everything but the most entirely selfish consideration. The underlying object of the admission of the two Association cities was the formation of one great monopolistic League, and at that time the League magnates thought they saw the way clear for the accomplishment of a long-cherished purpose. The Players' League had failed to effect a permanent organization, the American Association was in the throes of a bitter factional fight, and so the League magnates thought they had both on the run, and calmly proceeded to appropriate the two strongest clubs of the Association. The calculation was that the Players' League movement would quickly fall to pieces right after the Indianapolis desertions, under the weight of discouragement and the outlined assaults of League money and bluff; that for Brooklyn and Cincinnati a ten-club circuit could be made, since if two of the clubs would not be frozen out, enough players would be available when the Brotherhood movement collapsed to equalize all the teams with material equal to that acquired by the accession of the two Association clubs; and that with the Brotherhood movement dead and the Association bereft of its two strongest and richest clubs, the latter would either go to pieces or fall to a minor league state—it did not matter which—and then the League would have been left supreme in base ball, without a rival and monarch of all it surveyed. |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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