Clipping:Rumors of professionalism in the Atlantics; a situation does not make a man a professional
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| Date | Saturday, August 18, 1866 |
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| Text | [from a letter by “Umpire”] Talking about the Atlantics, what a small piece of business that was of theirs in putting in Crane and Pearce against the Troy fellows. Between you and me and the post, things ain’t working so smooth as they might do in the Atlantic club, “So how you can fix it.” “I know a man–not that man, but another man”–as knows another man, who said that he knew a man that said he wasn’t “going back again”–to his club, he meant–unless he had dollars and cents. Now you know very well that a man who makes a business of playing ball is not a man to be relied upon in a match where great interested are centered, or on which a large amount of money is pending. ... Ball playing is ball playing, and every good and true man likes to see his club take the highest seat of the row: that’s all right an proper. And another thing I believe in is this: if I know a first-class player who has been a crack pitcher or fielder when hwas a junior, but who, as he grows up, has to attend to “biz,” and can’t get away to play, but who would be just the man for “our nine,” I goes at once and gets him a good “sit” with a field of mine, who likes ball play, and who is a friend of our club, and who lets him off to play now and then; and, because I have done so I don’t think I have done anything on the “square,” either. But this playing ball for so much a week, or for a suit of clothes, or for “license fees,” or anything of that sort, in fact, making a business of it, has just got to be put down... |
| Source | New York Clipper |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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