Clipping:A denunciation of beer and Sunday games
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| Date | Sunday, August 15, 1880 |
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| Text | ...the beer-jerking and the Sunday games are relied on to help the [Cincinnati] Club out financially, and the present Cincinnati nine are employed very much as pretty waiter-girls are,--to increase the consumption and sale of beer and swell the receipts of the Club. It is degrading, offensive, ruinous, this association of base-ball and beer, and the league should legislate against it with as much severity as it has legislated against everything that tends to bring the game into disrepute. Decency requires that this business of running a base-ball team as an adjunct to a brewery should be sat down upon by the League. Similar severity should be displayed toward Sunday games on League Club grounds. Such games are a fraud upon visiting clubs, in that they attract to the Sunday play visitors who would otherwise go to a Monday game, and surfeit and cloy the appetite of the community for base-ball. This question both of Sunday games and beer-jerking is not one of morals, but of sound business policy. Base-ball, outside of Cincinnati, is supported by a class of people by whom these practices are regarded as an abomination,--a class of people whose patronage is of infinitely greater value in dollars and cents, let alone respectability, than that of the element to whom beer is an attraction and a necessity. If the Cincinnati Club wants to have Sunday games and convert its grounds into a beer saloon, let it do it outside the League. There are plenty of cities anxious to take the place vacated by Cincinnati, whose retirement would be hailed with general satisfaction. |
| Source | Chicago Tribune |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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