Clipping:The Athletics expelled from the League
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| Date | Sunday, December 10, 1876 |
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| Text | [reporting on the NL Board meeting of 12/6 and annual meeting of 12/7] The Chicago, St. Louis, Louisville and Cincinnati Clubs then presented articles demanding the expulsion of the Athletics and Mutuals for default and breach of the League rules. Mr. George W. Thompson presented the case of the Athletic Club in a petition setting forth the fact that it had always been honorable, and that it had defaulted this year by no fault of its own. The Board, however, by a unanimous vote, agreed to report to the League a resolution recommending the expulsion of the Athletics and Mutuals. ... A lively discussion ensued concerning the resolution of the Board recommending the expulsion of the Athletics and Mutuals, which lasted about two hours, the strongest argument advanced against these clubs, seeming to be, the enforcement of the penalty for failure to live up to the law as laid down in the constitution. It was officially stated that the Chicago and St. Louis Clubs would withdraw from the League in case the Athletics and Mutuals were not expelled. The final result was that the action of the Board expelling these two clubs was unanimously ratified, the Athletics’ delegate being however excluded from taking any part in this ex parte proceedings, on the flimsy plea that he was interested in this case. [N.B. The Mutuals had not sent a delegate.] Philadelphia Sunday Mercury December 10, 1876 In connection with the expulsion of the Athletics and Mutuals from the League, it may be mentioned that the Chicagos, who gained Bradley and Anson thereby, and the St. Louis, who thus secure Battin and Hall, pretended that their motives were purely disinterested. The truth of the matter is, all the League members were glad to see retired an otherwise formidable rival for the championship. Philadelphia Sunday Mercury December 10, 1876 |
| Source | Philadelphia Sunday Mercury |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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