Clipping:Proposed tenting over the Athletic grounds during rain
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| Date | Sunday, February 6, 1887 |
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| Text | [describing planned improvements at the Athletics ground] To provide against rain while the game is in progress a big rubber or canvass tenting will be stretched over the entirely diamond. Mr. Ryan [Athletics superintendent] says that they are going to have games anyhow and people need not stay at home fearing that a storm will cut the game short. The Philadelphia Times February 6, 1887 farming players to minor clubs The “Man from Jerusalem” is a genius when it comes to turning a penny and getting the worth of his money out of anything. When Mullane and McPhee are signed the Cincinnati Club will have seventeen men under contract, and the question naturally arises what disposition can be made of so much talent, so as to keep them all actively employed and in practice. It was first suggested that a sub-team be organized to play Sunday games, while the regular club are absent. This plan has been tried so often in various League and Association cities, and invariably proved a dismal failure, that it met with strong opposition from the directors of the club. So many players could not be maintained and yet the management was loth to let any of them go. President Stern finally fixed upon a feasible plan, that of letting four or five of the players to the Emporia Club, of Kansas, an independent organization, and the agreement is so arranged that should the Cincinnati Club find need for any of the men they will be sent on at once. The men are to receive the same salaries as they would had they played in Cincinnati. This will lighten the expense of the home club and at the same time they will have five god men to fall back upon in a pinch. A cute scheme, but not original with Stern. It has been successfully worked before. The Sporting Life February 9, 1887 |
| Source | Philadelphia Times |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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