[1] The Stars finished in last place in their only season,[2] then were expelled, "for failure to observe the rules, agreements and requirements of the league.
"[3] While the rest of the owners in the National League wanted changes banning Sunday baseball and beer selling at ballparks, Cincinnati objected, saying too much of the club's revenue would be lost.
The expulsion of the Cincinnati franchise from the National League spurred the creation of the new American Association (AA).
Thorner took ownership of the AA's Cincinnati Red Stockings franchise,[a] which in 1882 won that league's first pennant.
A son of Jacob and Rosalia (Baun) Thorner, he was born in 1848 in Hanover,[citation needed] Germany, and emigrated to the United States at a young age.