Clipping:Dismissing rumors of the AA and PL amalgamating

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Date	Saturday, August 23, 1890
Text	[editorial matter] There is nothing in the amalgamation story, because amalgamation is impracticable unless the Players' League stoops to folly and decides to enlarge its circuit to twelve clubs, an altogether unlikely contingency. A twelve-club League presents some few advantages, but these are more than offset by many and serious drawbacks. As a means of shutting the League out of some desirable cities such a big league might prove advantageous as a war measure, but the probability is that it would prove a boomerang, and the Players' League might simply beat out its own brains with the very club it designed to crush the League with. The experience of the American Association in 1884, when it enlarged its circuit to twelve clubs to help crush the Union Association, is a case in point. Only the crafty League gained by the ill-advised move.
Source	Sporting Life
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Submitted by	Richard Hershberger
Origin	Initial Hershberger Clippings

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