Clipping:AA player agrees to his trade
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| Date | Monday, July 12, 1886 |
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| Text | “Well, I have just been released from the Browns,” said George McGinnis on last Wednesday morning. “Where are you going?” was the response. “Well,” replied George, “I understand I have been released to go to the Athletics, but I have made no bargain with them yet.” The Sporting News July 12, 1886 a mob interrupts the game [Brooklyn vs. Cincinnati 7/11/1886] The crowd was very noisy from the start, and when Umpire Bradley called McPhee out on strikes in the second inning became very abusive. In the sixth inning Bradley rendered a decision, which was afterwards pronounced by the entire Cincinnati club a fair one, but it gave the Brooklyns two runs, and the crowd went wild. The hooting interrupted the game, and finally some fellow in the “bleaching boards” hurled a beer glass at Bradley, the missile breaking within a few feet of him and one of the Brooklyn players. This increased the fury of the crowd, which was making an uproarious disturbance, and the first glass was followed by a dozen more from two or three stands. One of them struck Mr. Bradley on the foot. To add to the confusion, a fight had arisen in the west pavilion, and Bob Clark, one of the Brooklyn players, seeing some of his friends in the fight, seized a bat and clambered into the stand to take part in the affray. He was soon put back in the field and the fight stopped. Meanwhile two or three thousand people poured into the field from the stands threatening the umpire and the Brooklyn players, and the private policemen had all they could do to protect them from the howling mob. Bradley escaped by fleeting to the Director’s room, where he remained for fifteen minutes. After the disturbance in the pavilion had been quelled the crowd slowly left the field and play was resumed without further incident. In the crush in the grand stand a number of benches were broken and the reporters’ stand was demolished, but nobody hurt. Bradley was not molested after the game. There were no arrests. Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette July 12, 1886 [See also Cincinnati Enquirer 7/12/1886.] |
| Source | The Sporting News |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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