Clipping:A resume of the Athletics' history and prospects
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| Date | Saturday, May 26, 1866 |
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| Text | In March last Mr, Fitzgerald was unanimously re-elected President of the famous Athletic Club. One month thereafter he resigned, intending to withdraw from active Base Ball life, but, within a week he has been induced to accept the Presidency of the Equity Club, the oldest Base Ball organization in the State, and a highly respectable body of young men. ... It took six years and an incredible amount of hard work to make the Athletics the first club in America. When Mr. Fitzgerald accepted the Presidency of the Athletics the club consisted of but three or four individuals. It had neither men, money, ground, nor character. At the time of his resignation, the club had over four hundred members, the best nine in the country, and about seven hundred dollars in the treasury. It remains to be seen how long this prosperity will continue. If good counsels prevail, all will go well–but ignorance, vanity, selfishness, willfulness, and conceit, if allowed to get the upper hand, will destroy this splendid organization, the work of so much labor, thought, and anxiety. |
| Source | Philadelphia City Item |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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