Clipping:An 1875 exhibition game sold
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| Date | Wednesday, May 30, 1888 |
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| Text | [from Caylor's column] ...the club which revived the sport in the Queen City in 1875, after an interim of nearly five years, began its existence with a purchased game. … The game was bought from the Chicago White Stockings. It was purchased with the sole aim of giving the new club a boom and with no ab initio intent to aid in winning money on the result. The Chicago Club was to get a sum certain for losing the game in the latter part, and the club itself had no idea it was aiding a lot of gamblers. The principal officials of the Cincinnati Club had no such motive, either. But unfortunately there were among the stockholders several sporting men and one or two gamblers who saw a chance to do a little robbing. They could get immense odds on the result and they had their heelers out in the vast crowd betting liberally on the Cincinnatis at odds of about 1 to 3, while they themselves pretended to be backing the Reds moderately. In the seventh inning, I think it was, the fun began. A couple of errors and some dump pitching gave the Reds enough runs to put them ahead, and in the eighth they hammered out eight runs. Scott Hastings did the catching and Mike Golden was the pitcher for the Chicagos. It was amusing to watch them lose that game. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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