Clipping:Negotiations to consolidate clubs stalled
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| Date | Saturday, November 8, 1890 |
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| Text | With the close of the present week and within a few days of the annual meetings of the big leagues the prospect for a general consolidation of the two big leagues is effectually blighted and it would be pretty safe to predict that not more than one or two—if any—Players' League clubs will be absorbed by the National League. This is certainly due to the fact that the National League, instead of meeting its rivals fairly, has been trying to get the best of the deal, everywhere except in New York, where it had so much to gain and so little to lose by consolidating that it was absolutely essential to success to make a show of fairness. In Philadelphia there have been no approaches to a conference; in Boston the triumvirs are calmly waiting for such a turn of affairs as will throw the Players' League Club upon their mercy; in Cleveland the League people have made conditions that Mr. Johnson cannot [illegible]. … ...words, the League is apparently sure of consolidation in Brooklyn and New York, and, having secure that, is confident that it will break the Players' League and force all of the remaining clubs to sacrifice themselves. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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