Paul—Interesting read. Thanks for the information. In answer to your final question, one additional reason to include the WA was to sell cigarettes. People differentiated between brands based on the inserts they got with the purchase. By adding the WA, Goodwin added teams in states that were in neither the NL or the AA. This was a carrot for people in those states to buy Old Judge cigarettes. This is probably the same reason that Goodwin added the California League in 1889.
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