Block · one region of the page, as the scanner read it. It may hold a whole story, part of one, several, or an advertisement; stitching blocks into articles is the next step. Text is supplied OCR.
Page 5 · column 4 of 7 · from the scan, no model involved
ship, we quit loser, and not a single club in the new league made a cent. That first year of the league was far from being a financial Buccess. Some of the clubs got into serious trouble. My old friends, the Athletics, and tha New York Mutuals failed to play out their scheduled games In the west that year, and at the next annual meeting of the league—held in Cleveland the following December—they were expelled. That left only six clubs to enter the arena for championship honors in 1877. The men who oi ganlzed the league must have felt a little shaky as to the outcome of their experiment, but there wasn't anything that could chill the pedal extremities of ^William a. Hulbert when once he had undertaken to see a thing through. The organization of the league had been a hobby with him for years, and he declared that the new venture was going even better than he had expected. I am glad that he lived to see his scheme in successful operation.
98.3%