Clipping:An early suggestion that Lucas is aiming for League membership
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| Date | Wednesday, August 13, 1884 |
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| Text | A very shrewd base ball observer is of the opinion that Mr. Lucas is working his cards for admission to the National League next season. Else why this continual strengthening of a team already too powerful for any and all of the Union Association clubs. The Sporting Life August 13, 1884 It is the opinion of those who watch the schemes of the Union wreckers and figure on them, that the leaders among that choice assortment of base ball clubs are building for the future. All the life there is in the Association is confined to St. Louis and Cincinnati. Boston has a fairly strong club, but picked its players up easily and has met with little or no opposition. Cincinnati has had the hardest row to hoe, and in the face of steady loss has made a good fight. St. Louis has led the battle and its closest ally has been Cincinnati. The two have evidently worked together for some purpose and the purpose is no less a one than admission to the National League. They work on the idea that strong clubs in such strong cities as Cincinnati and St. Louis will be eagerly accepted in place of Detroit, Buffalo or Cleveland, and seek to fortify themselves so as to go to the National League fall meeting in such shape that there will be little chance of their offer being rejected. At the rate things are drifting at present the League has lost much of the honest virility which once permeated it, and it is doubtful whether the Union’s offer would be rejected. Admittance to the League would gratify Lucas’ ambition and “get even” for the slight, real or imaginary, given him by the Cincinnati American Association Club. Of course the minor clubs in the Union Association would be duped if such a deal was made, but it is evident that Lucas and Thorner would willingly wreck their present partners in wrecking for the sake of their pet scheme. It would also be a direct reversal of the principles and acts by the League, but in these days of “chase-the-sixpence” base ball nothing is impossible. The honorable game in the past, without profit in many cases, has gone and in its place has sprung up the base ball of the speculator. The Sporting Life August 20, 1884, quoting the Cleveland Herald |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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