Some alarmists even believed that forcing the birth of professional baseball at this time would not only fail to achieve the desired result but would shorten the life of amateur baseball, which is still being run in a haphazard manner.
有些人還認為，在條件不足下勉強發展，不僅無法達到預期效果，還可能斷送仍在慘澹經營的業餘球隊。