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November News: Will the Atlantic Club Stay Strong?
| Salience | Noteworthy |
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| City/State/Country: | Brooklyn, NY, United States |
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| Text | "The Atlantics will be divided up among the leading professional nines for 1871. Ferguson and Start are to go to Chicago, Chapman and Hall southwest, and others will help with the Mutuals and Haymakers. The Atlantics, it is aid, will then return to an amateur funding for 1871." |
| Sources | New York Sunday Mercury November 13, 1870 http://www.brooklynatlantics.org/history.php, (accessed 11/13/2020). |
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| Comment | "Is the Atlantic Club about to be gutted? Spoiler: Yes. With no reserve system or multi-year contracts, every offseason was a potential cage match. The Atlantics historically have been successful at doing unto others, but this year they will be done unto. Indeed, it will be so thorough that they will sit 1871 out, as a professional club. They will return to the professional ranks in 1872, but will never really recover. The predicted destinations aren't quite right. Ferguson and Start will go to the Mutuals. The vague bit about Hall going "southwest" is right. The Olympics of Washington will make a run for it. Mostly this will involve the old Red Stocking players Harry Wright doesn't take with him to Boston. Taking George Hall from the Atlantics will be part of this. It won't work. The Olympics will go 15-15: the very definition of mediocre. Chapman will stick with the Atlantics initially, them jump to the Eckfords. So it goes." from Richard Hershberger, 150 Years Ago Today, 11/13/2020 Facebook Posting. In June 1870, the Atlantics had broken the famous winning streak of the visiting Cincinnati Red Stockings, 8-7. In 1872 the club was to become professional again, and join the National Association. The Atlantic website cited above shows a later Atlantic lineage to the Brooklyn Dodgers, formed in 1911. Edit with form to add a comment |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Submission Note | FB posting, 11/13/2020 |
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1870.13 November News: Will the Atlantic Club Stay Strong?"
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