The fight between the new and old base ball association has grown "more so" during the past week. The Union Association held its meeting in Philadelphia, and, as predicted, has coalesced with the Union League. This sharpens the issue and simplifies matters. It is the associations who are parties to the National agreement against the Unions. Neither will win if the unions last until the opening of the season...
The manner in which the Union Association is arranging its clubs in Baltimore, Chicago and St. Louis makes it sure that one management is financially supporting all three clubs. That management is in St. Louis. The question is, will the public take interest in games between clubs thus connected? The life has been sustained in the League only by clean, hard fighting, and for the new association to prosper it must throw off all suspicion of prearranged games. As it is, the surface appearance of affairs between these clubs looks as if such an arrangement will be on...
Of course anything like an interchange of games between rival Association teams in the several cities will be impossible. If they were, the Union teams, except St. Louis, would be found weaklings...The Unions are trying to snare the Ohio League into their Alliance. The Ohio League is not to be caught by such a proposition when they can enter the National agreement pool upon application. It is for the Ohio League to consider whether they can get a more profitable exchange of games from the League and American Association on one hand or the Union Association on the other.
-Cleveland Herald, December 24, 1883
I'm enjoying the Herald's coverage of all of this. Their editorial stance is a nice counter to the Globe's. I don't necessarily agree with what they write but I really like how uncompromising they are in their opinion.
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