Clipping:The ill effects of Sunday games

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Date	Sunday, December 16, 1877
Text	[from a letter dated 12/6/77 from “Douce Davie” relating the failure of the St. Louis Club] I attribute a good share of our trouble to the fact that we disgusted a certain class of people by playing ball on Sunday. One of the soundest expressions I ever heard on that subject was from a strong well-wisher of the Browns who once said in my hearing: “I tell you the bums and roughs are done busted: they’ve got no money. The money is all a gittin into the church folks’ hands, and just so sure as you git them down on you, you’re gone. And just so sure as you go to playin’ games on Sunday them knock-kneed old dads won’t let their girls go of a week day; and then the curly-haired boys won’t go, and I tell you them’s the chaps that have the money.” There was more of this homely sermon, but it was all to the same purpose, and I firmly believe it was based on better knowledge of human nature than the management had.
Source	Chicago Tribune
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Submitted by	Richard Hershberger
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