OT-Article about Baseball in Philly in the 1880s RE The Athletics
 

Thought it was a brief of how Baseball got started in Philly and wanted to share.

http://www.philly.com/philly/opinion...to_Philly.html

That article isn't accurate. Baseball was still popular in Philadelphia during that time and many star players played Independent ball during the 1877-81 period. They had three teams in the League Alliance in 1877 and many of those 1882 players came from the 1881 Philadelphia Athletics of the Eastern Championship Association. There is a book called "Baseball in Philadelphia" by John Shiffert, that has a few pages that cover that 1877-81 era