Clipping:The expansion of the game
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| Date | Sunday, August 28, 1859 |
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| Text | THE INCREASING POPULARITY OF THE GAME.–It gives us great pleasure to note the increasing popularity of the game of base ball, East, West, North, and South. Not only in the principle cities, but in almost all the interior towns where the good seed has been sown, it has sprung up, and brought forth good fruit. Clubs are organized and matches are played with great frequency–and the closeness with which games are contested by the Boston, Portland, Rochester, Buffalo, Lockport, Louisville, and Chicago clubs (as reported in our columns from time to time) in convincing proof of the interest which is realized by their respective players. It has been our aim and desire–and we have taken extraordinary pains, by the dissemination of the Rules of the Game throughout the country–to cultivate a taste among the young and old (for both can profit by it) for the game of Base Ball, which we consider and once the most pleasing and attractive of all the sports of the field. The proof of this is the great success which has crowned our efforts. It is a game which all can easily understand and acquire; it does not occupy much time; it is free from dissipation of any kind; and the effects are most wholesome. Therefore, it is popular; and it shall ever be the aim of the Mercury to foster and enhance its rapid growth in the affections of the people throughout the land. We took hold of base ball in its infancy, when there were but two or three clubs in existence, and we shall yet see the day when they will number as many thousands. |
| Source | New York Sunday Mercury |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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