Clipping:James O'Rourke opens his law practice
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| Date | Wednesday, December 21, 1887 |
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| Text | “I find that it is the opinion among a great many friends of mine,” said attorney James O'Rourke, the well-known ball player, to-day, “that now I have fledged out as a lawyer, secured a lace to sit down and displayed my shingle that my days of tossing the ball in a professional way were at an end. Perhaps it might interest you to rectify this mistake if you think it worth while. For some years to come the law business will be a side issue with me. I am young yet, in good health and I see no reason why I should give up a several thousand dollars' bird in hand for the sake of a few hundreds in the bush. Fully six months in the year I shall have time for briefs, musty law books and all that. This will sort of counter-balance my athletic life for the remainder of the twelve months of the give me a chance to do a little head work, such as studying and perfecting myself as much as possible. A ball player wears out eventually and at that time I shall drop out of the National game, as some of my enthusiastic friends declare, blossom out a level-headed age into a luminous legal light of the Park City [i.e. Bridgeport, Connecticut]. You needn't say this, however, for perhaps I may be a dismal failure. I'll tell you later what I am going to do with the bat and ball in '88. |
| Source | The Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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