“National League Is Proved to Be Responsible for the Failure to Avert a Clash with the American,” 6

In Ban Johnson's manifesto of National League sins issued at the American League meetings in Chicago, he mentioned that Connie Mack, among other league managers, were financially invested in the new operation. Mack was the sole Philadelphia representative in attendance.

National Wants to Fight American at All Corners,“ 6

Arthur Irwin, a representative of the Boston franchise in the nascent, and soon to be moribund, American Association, said the American League was “worse off than ever” after putting a franchise in Philadelphia.