Clipping:A call for an amateur association; a contrary view
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| Date | Sunday, February 19, 1871 |
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| Text | The following is the call issued by the committee: “We, the undersigned, respectfully invite the amateur baseball clubs to each appoint a delegate to attend a meeting to be held at the Excelsior Baseball Club-rooms, in Fulton street, Brooklyn, on Thursday, March 16, for the purpose of organizing an amateur baseball association that will discountenance the playing of the game for money or as a business pursuit. S. B. Jones, M.D., F. S. Dakin, and H. S. Jewell, Excelsior Club, Brooklyn; Samuel H. Kissam and James Whyte Davis, Knickerbocker Club, New York; A. J. Bixby, Eagle Club, New York; C. E. Thomas, Eureka Club, Newark; A. K. Dunkele, Equity, of Philadelphia, and many others. New York Sunday Mercury February 19, 1871 A call has been issued for a convention of delegates from amateur clubs, to meet in Brooklyn, N.Y., on the 16th of next March. The management of the affairs seems to be in the hands of a clique of New York and Boston men, who have outlived their usefulness on the ball field, and who, failing to obtain control of the National Association, now seek to raise dissensions in that body by creating an invidious distinction between amateurs and professionals. The Excelsiors of Brooklyn–a club who in the year 1860 introduced the practice of playing professionals–have issued an address... Philadelphia Sunday Mercury February 19, 1871 |
| Source | New York Sunday Mercury |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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