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a much smaller scale. The Union as
ISOLATION proceeded to raid where it
could and harass the other fellows as
much as possible.
The league was backed by Henry V.
Lucas, a young St Louis millionaire.
He kicked up such fuss during the
winter of 1SS4-5 he was offered a
National league franchise, which he +,
accepted. The other seven clubs went !
broke, and their hackers lost small for /
tunes.
Brotherhood Bitter War.
Undoubtedly the most bitter baseball
war ever waged was the Brotherhood
war of 1890. That was the year the
players revolted, largely because of
rule passed by the National league
making an individual salary limit of
$1,000 a year
The Brotherhood or Players league
procured the crack players of the coun-
try as well as the popular idols of the
day, had convenient parks and had
lots Of capital behind them. but the
league was poorly managed, and after
practically having the Nationals beat
en- the players We're beaten themselves.
Many prominent figures in the recent
Fed war had important posts on the
Brotherhood side ia the war OF 1890.
John X. Teuer, president of the Ma
tiOnal league. was secretary of the
Brotherhood but he let his official du-
ties interfere with his playing. as he
won something like three games and
dropped fifteen for the Pittsburgh
/ Brotherhoods Tener was one of the
| greatest defenders of players rights;
I in fact, he was the Ed Reulbach Of his
/ day. Tener never played professional
| ball after his Brotherhood experience.
! 1t IS said his chagrin over the deser-
ton of the Brotherhood players back
! to the National league was the cause
of his retirement, though his Pitts
burgh pitching average may have had
| something to do with it.
Ward a Big Power.
John Montgomery Ward was presi-
dent of the Players league, big pow
er in the organization and manager of
the Brooklyn Brotherhood team. Like
Tener, he almost became president of
the National league and would likely
be president of the league now but for
the activities Of Ban Johnson Ward
started the Federal league war as bust
ness manager of the Brooklyn Federals
and as a general adviser.
Arthur Irwin managed the Boston
Brotherhood league champions. Arthur
spent the first half Of the war in pre-
venting Farrell's players from jumping
and the second half in managing the
Lewiston (New England league) team.
The Chicago Brotherhood team was
managed by Charley Comiskey, who
was the American leagues big anchor
during the recent war, as Chicago,
Boston and Detroit were the only A.
l.. teams where there was any money
during the last two years The popu-
larity of Charley Comiskey and his
White Sox prevented the popular
Weeghman from winning Chicago.
) Connie Mack managed the Buffalo
Brotherhoods, which incidentally fin
ished in last place with a percentage
; of .273, practically the same percent
, age with which Mack's tail end Ath
letics finished last season.
) National League Supreme.
D After the collapse of the Brotherhood
war the National league and its re
e serve clause remained supreme, bu
I trouble threatened in the form of til,
a American association, the second ma
r jor league, which had prosperous ca
reer in the late eighties. The war witt
the association followed immediatel.
g on the heels of the players uprisin!
0 IN 1901, resulting from ruling by tn
national board which took Player
Bierbauer and Stovey away from tn
association.
Peace was secured in 1891 throug
: the merger of the National league an
y the association into one twelve clu
! league, and for the next eight year
! the National league was known as th
I National league and the American a.
sociation.