Clipping:Caylor comes out against Sunday baseball; Pritchard's response
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| Date | Wednesday, September 28, 1887 |
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| Text | [from Caylor's column] There are several things the Association men ought to do for their general good if they had the courage and self-denial. First abandon Sunday ball playing, and thus step up on a social level with the League. It is a poor plea that the Association clubs cannot live without Sunday base ball. That plea is a confession that the Association is weaker than the League—a concession I, for one, am not willing to make. The League has lived twelves years without Sunday games, and it is in pretty good health now. And wherever there are two clubs representing the two bodies, the League club is fast receiving a superior recognition. Instance New York and Philadelphia. The Sporting Life September 28, 1887 [from Joe Pritchard's column] This thing of doing away with Sunday games in the East might be all right, but here in the West the question presents quite a different outlook. In the Eastern cities the week-day attendance outnumbers our Western crowds two to one, and the Western managers are obliged to have Sunday games in order to come out ahead or even on the season's work. The week-day crowds in St. Louis this season have been smaller than in any previous year since the Browns have been a club, and the Sunday crowds have not been large, unless some of the crack clubs were matched against the Browns. … Caylor argues that any city that can support a club at all can support it without Sunday games, and right there is where I differ with O. P., and I can back up my argument with facts. In the Union Association—with Sunday games—Lucas made money in St. Louis, but in the League, without Sunday games, the Napoleon of base ball, as he was at one time called, was forced to throw up both hands. President Von der Ahe would be in the same box if the Association should decide to do away with Sunday ball playing. I am positive of one thing on this Sunday question, and that is this:--St Louis is obliged to have Sunday games or do without a crack club. The Sporting Life October 5, 1887 |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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