Underline the phrase that shows people were surprised by Champion’s decision to pay baseball players It was considered a bold move to decide to openly pay players to play
baseball, and it can be credited to Club President Aaron B. Champion,
who came up with the idea. In 1869, the Reds' player-manager Harry vedt
Wright, known as the “Father of Professional Baseball," and his team
toured the country and won sixty games without a single loss. Although
the National Association didn't want to support the professional baseball
movement, they were overruled. Major League baseball in America
had begun.