Clipping:Types of ball club members
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| Date | Thursday, April 4, 1867 |
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| Text | Base Ball Clubs, with few exceptions, are organized in a similar manner. And not only are their offices and constitutions very similar, but even the members of every club may be divided into classes. The club is yet to be found whose list of members cannot be so divided. Having divided them into classes, we number them one, two, three and four. In class number one may be placed the first nine, or experts. This class is the most prominent, because more frequently before the public. They seem to take the least interest of any in their club, and in ball matters generally. We have a faint suspicion that this is assumed for effect. In class number two are placed the second rate players, always to be found on the ground on practice days, and every other, in fact. They are very ambitious to excel, and attain a position on the first nine, so as to rank as experts. This they will not acknowledge. They claim it is so as to be able to play on matches more frequently. Class number three is the back bone of the club, the hard workers; they live for the club and the club alone. This is the class from which the officers are chosen. They are the life and the support of the club. Their purse strings are always untied for any demands of the club, and the time is never inopportune for them to do duty in its cause. They may be seen in all their glory at the assembling of the National Association of Base Ball Players. To this class the nation is indebted for a national game. They work earnestly and energetically without any hopes of popular applause, and are actuated solely by the pure interest they take in the game. Give them their meed of praise and let the players attend to their counsels, for they are not governed by selfish motives. In the fourth and last class may be placed those members who take but little interest in ball playing. They joint through the influence of friends, already members; and also from the hopes of finding that pleasure and excitement that is to be found in such associations, and are willing to ope their purses pretty frequently for the benefits derived. Occasionally they play on a practice game or muffin match, but very seldom. |
| Source | Brooklyn Eagle |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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