Clipping:A call for Gentleman Amateur clubs
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| Date | Sunday, November 21, 1869 |
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| Text | One feature we are most anxious to see carried out next year and one which we are satisfied will prove not only interesting but advantageous to the health and minds of our young readers, is the establishment of Base Ball Clubs, strictly confined to Gentleman Amateurs. We do not for one moment wish the dissolution of any of our clubs of professionals, because we think they would be the means in a great measure of stimulating our Amateurs to increased exertions, and it is at all times a pleasure to witness the finest points of the game, illustrated as we do, when a couple of professional clubs meet in friendly rivalry, at the same time, as is exemplified by the perfection to which English Amateur Cricketers attain, we not only see why many of the Amateur Base Ball Clubs should not run a great many of their professional brethren a very close race in any contest in which they may engage. An annual home and home contest might thus be established between the amateurs and the professionals, and we have no doubt it would prove one of the most attractive in the year’s programme. |
| Source | New York Dispatch |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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