Clipping:Chadwick on class and the color line
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| Date | Saturday, July 26, 1890 |
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| Text | [from Chadwick's column] One of the anomalies of professional base ball patronage is the objection of the bleaching board occupants to the playing of colored men in the teams. Hence a case in point. The Atlantic Association is in distress. Their Jersey City Club is bankrupt. The Harrisburg Club is anxious to take its place in the Atlantic arena. There is only one obstacle in its way. The immaculate teams of Baltimore, Wilmington, Washington and Newark, and of New Haven, Hartford and Worcester—says the New York Sun—object to the playing of colored men in the Atlantic Association club teams, and the Harrisburg Club team contains one named Grant. A correspondent of the Philadelphia Times says: “Williams and Grant, both of the Cuban Giants last year, are the two colored men now playing with Harrisburg, and the club here is under obligations to Grant, whom they will not release, even if it keeps them out of the Association. Williams is not so well liked, and his release is not objected to. Grant, who is light in color, is very gentlemanly and a great player, and his release would cause many patrons of the game to become disgusted. The question whether Harrisburg will take a place in the Atlantic Association depends upon Grant's release, and President Braden has telegraphed to all the managers asking them to withdraw their objections to his being retained. He has not received any answers, and he believes that when they do come they will show the managers firm in their action to banish the colored men from the Association and the scheme will fall through.” The glorious inconsistency of objecting to a gentlemanly colored man in a team, while making no objection to the presence of so many white “toughs,” “roughs” and drunkards, who have been allowed for years to bring disgrace on the fraternity, is one of the absurdities of the existing condition ODF things in the base all world. I hope to see the Atlantic Association show some common sense in this matter. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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