Clipping:Brooklyn Club seeking to buy real estate; finances
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| Date | Sunday, January 13, 1889 |
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| Text | The Brooklyn Club is looking for a new ball ground,not to play Sunday games on, but an every-day ground. In a talk with one of the directors of the club the other day he said: “We want a new ball ground, and have a number of agents out looking for it. We don't want to lease one, but to buy it outright, and then construct the finest ball field in the world. We have $200,000 to lay out, and, as we are in the business to stay and to make money, we are willing to put our money in it.” The city has grown so rapidly since the present Brooklyn ground was constructed that the property has become very valuable. The owners of the land have not been slow in recognizing this fact, and each time the managers of the club have renewed their lease they have been compelled to pay more money for the ground. Then, too, they can only get a short lease, which does not suit them at all. Could they secure a twenty years' lease of the ground there is no doubt but that they would stay just where they are. Their idea is to secure a place on the line of one of the elevated roads, and have a station constructed right at the entrance. They have grown tired of depending on the go-as-you-please street car travel, and want something better. East New York is the place where they are looking for a ground now. |
| Source | New York Sun |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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