Clipping:Disregard for professional matches
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| Date | Friday, October 1, 1869 |
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| Text | [regarding the Cincinnati tour to California] … these baseball matches are getting to be mere performances, given for the purpose of making money for the performers, and as such have no claim upon our regard beyond any other show. If a lot of professional base-ball players from Cincinnati happen to beat another lot of professional players in San Francisco, we decline to be thrilled with gratification at this victory of the East over the West, or to admit that the public has any such interest in any such performance as makes it worth while to telegraph the result of it from San Francisco to New York. In fact, glory is not the object of the game at all, but gate-money. New York World October 1, 1869 the umpire giving too many warnings before calling balls [Keystone vs. Mutual 10/1/1869] The umpire was too timid to enforce the rules strictly, although he “gave” more bases than usual; yet before “calling” balls he gave too many warnings, and the pitchers soon learned to take advantage of his lenity. National Chronicle October 2, 1869 |
| Source | New York World |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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