Clipping:The new professional system
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| Date | Saturday, April 3, 1869 |
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| Text | Three days of warm and sunshiny weather now, will bring Base Ball upon the field for the season. There is reason to believe that it will flourish this year as never before. The system that has long prevailed among cricketers in England—that of procuring the best professors of the game, and paying them wages for their services, whether in instructing a club or playing in its matches—has now been attained here. Professional ball-players have for several years been known in this country, but for whole “nines” to be exclusively made up of them, is something of recent date. During the coming season the professional base ball organizations are to be placed on a distinct footing from amateur or social clubs, and as a consequence there will be fewer contests than heretofore between the professional and amateur. But there will be none the fewer meetings. On the contrary, owing to the fact that our largest cities have now organized trained “nines,” all of which will contend in series with each other, the battles will be more numerous and fiercer than ever. The vanquishing of one or two crack Clubs by an opposing local organization will no longer settle disputes of merit as formerly. A season's interest in base-ball will not culminate hereafter in a series of games between the Mutuals, Atlantics, and Athletics. The club which shall claim the title of champion at the close of the season of 1869 will have to meet and defeat a dozen or more organizations presenting trained and professional players like themselves. |
| Source | New York Daily Tribune |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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