1865.12

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"Professional" Players? Yes. Playing For Money? No

Salience Noteworthy
Tags Baseball Professionalism, Business of Baseball
City/State/Country: NYC, NY, United States
Game Base Ball
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Adult
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[A] "THE MUTUAL CLUB AND THEIR GROUNDS. The Mutual Club...have rented the enitre ground (at the Elysian Fields)...their object being to afford equal opportunities for both the 'professional' and amateur players of the club to enjoy practice to their hearts' content."

[B] "PLAYING BASEBALL FOR MONEY.-- ...We trust never to see our national pastime brought down to the level of contests in the prize ring of pugilism. The honor of incasing the ball as the only trophy of victory in a match is sufficient without bringing pecuniary rewards into the game as incentives for extra efforts. When the time arrives for money to be made the object in playing ball, then good-bye to friendly contests and the rule of gentlemanly ball-players..."

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[A] New York Sunday Mercury, May 7, 1865

[B] New York Sunday Mercury, July 30, 1865

 

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Submitted by Bob Tholkes
Submission Note 8/22/2014



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