Clipping:Enclosed ground in New Jersey
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| Date | Sunday, August 11, 1867 |
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| Text | Since the match with the Mutuals, the Irvingtons have inclosed their field with a high fence, besides erecting rows of seats for the accommodation of spectators, and a covered stand for the members of the press. To defray the costs of these improvements, a charge of twenty five cents admission was made on this occasion, and some 2,000 people passed through the gates and occupied seats; this fact alone showing the deep interest manifested in this game; for it is a fatiguing journey to get to Irvington and the attraction must be great to induce any one to undertake the task. New York Sunday Mercury August 11, 1867 reflections on the status of baseball [quoting the Doylestown (Pa.) Democrat] We scarce supposed in our hours of buoyant boyhood that our favorite recreation with bat and ball would one day be elevated into such dignity and importance as to become the subject of solemn and sedate State Conventions and the deep deliberations of organized clubs–that newspapers would send their reporters out to the play grounds...that the telegraph, then unknown, would, by woven wire, hasten to inform distant parts of our Union... Ball Players Chronicle August 8, 1867 |
| Source | New York Sunday Mercury |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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