Clipping:An editorial against beer and Sunday baseball
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| Date | Friday, July 16, 1886 |
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| Text | Last Sunday’s disturbance at Cincinnati during the game between the home nine and the Brooklyns of the American Association was an emphatic argument in favor of the management of the National Association [sic: i.e. National League], and a clear demonstration of the fact that beer, base-ball and Sunday cannot be harmoniously combined. Although the umpire appears to have acquitted himself to the satisfaction of both nines, the Sunday crowd in the “bleaching boards” was of another mind. And so, unwilling to leave him to the chances of escaping death from the ball, the roughs, with beer in their blood and the mugs in their fists, “took a hand in the game.” The Sunday game was the occasion for the presence of so many hoodlums, and the beer for sale on the grounds prompted the attack and furnished the missiles. The even was disgraceful to the American Association, and probably could not have occurred in any other city except perhaps St. Louis or Hoboken. The National Association games has as a rule drawn much larger bodies of spectators and been more successful in every way without the adjunct of beer and without having made it necessary to play Sunday. For the firm stand taken against both these demoralizing innovations the officers of that association deserve credit. |
| Source | Chicago Tribune |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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