In February 1913, executive John Powers announced the formation of a new independent baseball league in the Midwest. The new league vowed to respect the National Agreement and said it would find players among "free agents, semi-pros and unsigned youngsters." A second meeting in Indianapolis on March 8th unveiled a revised list of franchises and a new name: The Federal League of Base Ball Clubs. Initially, Organized Baseball adopted a policy to ignore the new independent circuit which was operating outside of the National Agreement. The Sporting News predicted the Federal League would quickly disappear like most of its predecessors. But before the end of the 1913 season, the outlaw Federal League would prove itself and a potential baseball war loomed on the horizon. On January 5, 1915, the Federal League of Base Ball Clubs filed an antitrust lawsuit against Organized Baseball in the United States District Court of Northern Illinois. The Feds charged Organized Baseball with being a combination, a conspiracy, and a monopoly, in contradiction of the Sherman antitrust law. They named as defendants the sixteen presidents in the organized major leagues and the three members of the National Commission. The Federal League asked the court to declare the National Agreement, under which Organized Baseball operated, to be illegal and declare all contracts "null and void and of no effect." In an addendum to the Federal League's eleven-point complaint, the league maintained it should share in the major league's World's Series to determine the eventual champion. Source: Robert Peyton Wiggins. "The Federal League of Base Ball Clubs: the history of an Outlaw Major League, 1914-1915"