Clipping:The perceived frequency of thrown games
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| Date | Saturday, April 24, 1875 |
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| Text | [quoting an unidentified Buffalo newspaper] “As a general thing, any professional baseball club with 'throw' a game if there is money in it. A horse race is a pretty safe thing to speculate on, in comparison with an average ball match.” The italicised clause in the above paragraph is a libel on the professional fraternity. Thus far there is but one solitary instance in which players have been openly convicted of “throwing” or “selling” a game of ball. There have been charges made, suspicions formed, and circumstantial evidence of fraud at sundry times. There may, too, have been instances in which a very small minority of the players of the Professional Association Club have become so interested in bets or pools on the game they played in as to unfit them for faithful service for the time being; but taking the great majority of professional ball-players into the estimate, we can confidently assert that there is no sport now in vogue in which so little of the element of fraud prevails as in the baseball arena; and as for comparing the professional of the green field disparagingly with those of the turf, “One Who Knows” says that the one is as white to black in the estimation of all parties who know them. |
| Source | New York Clipper |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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