View source for Clipping:The AA threatens war if Brooklyn and Cincinnati jump to the NL

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|Type of Date=Day
|Date=11/20/1889
|Title=the AA threatens war if Brooklyn and Cincinnati jump to the NL
|Text=<p>This same combination [of AA clubs] ...perpetrated another blunder by selecting one of their number—Mr. Whitaker—to give the League, through Al Spalding, notice that the desertion of Brooklyn and Cincinnati would mean war;  and that in such event the American Association would joint hands with the Brotherhood as against the League.  The effect on the League can be imagined.  Several of the League delegates were furious and were for taking in the two Association clubs at once, even if a ten-club League were necessary, but wiser counsels prevailed, it being decided to do nothing without careful consideration.  The “big four” were, however, given to understand that if room could be made for Cincinnati and Brooklyn, and the latter were willing to enter, no Association threats would prevent their admission, and furthermore, that under such circumstances a breach of the National Agreement would injure only the Association, inasmuch as the latter had a number of valuable player that the League could use to advantage just now.  The latter argument proved a settler for the “combine,” which probably had never given the possibilities of the situation more than a cursory glance.</p>
|Source=Sporting Life
|Submitted by=Richard Hershberger
|Origin=Initial Hershberger Clippings
}}