Clipping:Various disputes within the AA
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| Date | Wednesday, May 18, 1887 |
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| Text | [reporting on the AA special meeting of 5/13] The call for the meeting had been kept very quiet, the meeting was very secret, and but little of the business transacted was given out for publication, but the real purpose of the meeting was to put a quietus on the kickers who were, under the guise of coaching, violating the rules and bringing the game into disrepute. Cleveland, Louisville and a number of other clubs were disgusted with the tactics of the St. Louis and Cincinnati players. There was also some complaint at the high-handed way Von der Ahe and Phelps were running things. Then the Mets and Cleveland had a little grievance to ventilate, namely, the action of Cincinnati in loaning players to outside clubs while their teams so sadly needed strengthening. There was also a little difficulty to be adjusted between Brooklyn and Cincinnati over Corkhill. Brooklyn holds documentary proof of Cincinnati's agreement to transfer the great John to Brooklyn, notwithstanding which Corkhill is now illegally playing with the Cincinnati team, he not yet having signed a contract for this season. There was also a little kick against Cuthbert's umpiring in St. Louis to be settled, as well as some questions of policy under the Inter-State Commerce law, and last, but not least, Barnie and Byrne's crusade against certain features of the new rules had to be considered. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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