Clipping:Sunday games in Brooklyn
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| Date | Wednesday, November 27, 1889 |
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| Text | [from J. F. Donnally's column] Some people have raised a cry that the loss of Sunday games will seriously affect the finances of the Brooklyn Club, but, as an even fate adjusts all things, it is more than probable that even had Brooklyn remained in the Association it would have been an impossibility to play at Ridgewood on Sundays next season. The panic raised by the notoriety-seeking cranks, who used bigotry as the vehicle to wheel themselves into public notice, has become epidemic and almost every church now has its Sunday observance society, which quite overlooks beer-selling, prostitution and things in that line, to harp on base ball. It's the thing, you know, and attract most attention. These people have practically joined forces on the question of Sunday ball games, and were going to have it all arranged to swoop down on the Brooklyn Club and give it a neck blow. Having joined the League now, all this rush will be unnecessary, and the cranks, taking the victory to themselves, will rather tend to increase the clubs' regular patronage, as many who would not go to see the club play on account of the Sunday games matter will, now that the ban has been lifted, flock to the club's standard. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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