Clipping:The financial status for the season
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| Date | Sunday, October 31, 1875 |
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| Text | There is not the slightest doubt but that the different club managers, with one or two exceptions, have come out of the contest of 1875 more or less indebted to their employees, which without doubt tended greatly to demoralize them as the end of the season approached. This fact alone would make the most plodding of men careless, no matter in what capacity they were placed, far more the nervous and excitable ball-tosser. There is one thing to be taken into account in the season’s play, and that is, if club stockholders and directors had attended more to the interest of their teams in the field, and less to their own personal gain in the pool-room, the salary of each player would have been liquidated in full at the present time, and club members would have finished their engagements with a clean record. Still what could be expected from players who were the constant companions of those who made a living by gambling in baseball pools. The public wisely surmised that the former were in league with the latter, and consequently withheld their patronage. It would be as well if all professional baseball managers of the future would bear in mind that all semblance of throwing games by players must be punished with instant suspension on the field, and after an immediate investigation (if found guilty,) no matter what his merits as a player may be, an ignominious expulsion should be the consequence from all professional nines. No white washing reports will do as of late. If managers do not act thus summarily the public and press of the country, at least that portion who love the national game when honestly played, will discountenance such clubs, and try and prevail upon the honest and honorable ones from contesting matches with them. New York Sunday Mercury October 31, 1875 [Also PCI 10/31/1875 for an nearly identical piece.] |
| Source | New York Sunday Mercury |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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