Will the "Federal League" ride again?
Perhaps the NSCC needs a rival. The time may not be right (at the moment) but the National League got some competition from the upstart American League after a single season operating as a minor league (1900) and by 1903 it had toppled the National from its perch as the Best in Baseball. Could the AMERICAN Sports Collectors Convention repeat the A.L.'s rise to the top?
No doubt the current practice of rotating between the east coast and midwest allows the most collectors to attend but other large metro areas could certainly put on an excellent show and return the National to being truly NATIONAL.
What's this business about the Federal League? Just an attention-getter. I would actually propose the AMERICAN Sports Collectors Convention as the NSCC's 21st century rival. But at 72 I'm too old to seriously do anything about it.
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