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| Date | Wednesday, December 12, 1888 |
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| Text | Charley Mason is nothing if not original. His latest venture is the opening of a training school for base ball players. He has leased the Pennsylvania State Fair Grounds, adjoining the Philadelphia Ball Park, and transferred the mammoth main building into a gymnasium. The building is large enough to play a game under its roof and will enable the players wintering in this city to keep in practice, as well as to get themselves into fine trim for next season. There is a gymnasium attached, in which the boys can work off their superfluous flesh and harden their muscles.; a running track on which they can practice sprinting and sliding; a cage where the batteries can work in and the building is large enough to allow hands to practice on batting and fielding. Mr. Mason has engaged four professionals to train the young pitchers and he hopes to develop some phenomenons before the season of 1889 begins. Thus far about thirty-five of the players wintering have entered the school. Mr. Mason's charges for the term, which ends about April 15, are $15, or about $3 per month. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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