Clipping:A gloomy assessment of the AA's prospects
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| Date | Wednesday, December 21, 1887 |
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| Text | The American Association meeting was practically barren of results, except for the improved umpire system adopted and the advance of admission rates to 50 cents. The latter innovation may work well or it may prove most disastrous, and, in the latter event, the Association will be in a sad plight, as few of its clubs are in a position to face such a contingency. Some of the clubs are still suffering from reversed of previous seasons. The playing strength is still very unequal, notwithstanding the recent transfers of players; the vacancy is yet unfilled, and the chances of securing a suitable successor are decidedly poor. If a club can be found it will simply add one more tail-ender to the already too long list of weak teams; if an eighth club cannot be found nothing will be left but a reduction of the number of clubs to six. To cap all, there is no confidence in each other among the Association people, as in another year a jump to the League by either Brooklyn or Cincinnati is looked for. Everything is shaping that way, and this makes the future uncertain and to a large extend hampers individual or concerted action. The Sporting Life December 21, 1887, quoting the Public Ledger [i.e. Richter] |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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