Clipping:Prospects for the National League; rating the various cities

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Date	Saturday, October 4, 1890
Text	A number of … ways to repair the breach in its line are, however, open to the League. Baltimore is available in the East should Brooklyn also drop out and would really be a better city without conflicts than Brooklyn is with two clubs. Should Brooklyn remain true, Baltimore is still available as a Western city in place of Pittsburg, or if the latter be considered too valuable on account of its geographical location, Baltimore could take Cleveland's place and the latter's now strong team be transferred to Pittsburg, thus ridding the League of one unprofitable double-club city. Under such an arrangement but one new club would be needed in the West, but with Baltimore in the Eastern circuit two new Western clubs would be necessary. In either event the League has such cities as Indianapolis, Detroit, Louisville, Kansas City, Minneapolis or even Milwaukee to draw upon. The two first-named are old League cities and educated up to the League standard, but otherwise not specially desirable. Louisville and Kansas City, though Sunday-playing and low-priced towns, have the advantage of possessing strong teams ready-made—a very important consideration, when it is remembered how difficult, nay, next to impossible, it is to organize any team capable of making a good showing in a major league upon the spur of the moment or even in an entire season. Either Kansas City or Louisville would, we think, forgo both Sunday games and low prices for the sake of escaping from their present insecure and probably unpalatable surroundings and becoming safely anchored in a major organization with the prestige and stability of the old National League. St. Louis is not to be considered as a League possibility at all, as that city is a poorer ball town than ever, and positively worthless without Sunday games; and it is pretty certain that the National League, no matter what its stress, will never descend to the level of the American Association and depart from its well-known line of policy as regards Sunday playing and low prices. Whenever it does it will no longer be the National League, but merely a revamped sort of American Association. Sooner than fall to that level we are sure the League would reduce itself for a season to a six-club basis.
Source	Sporting Life
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Submitted by	Richard Hershberger
Origin	Initial Hershberger Clippings

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