Clipping:An early proposal for a European tour
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| Date | Sunday, December 15, 1867 |
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| Text | [President Gorman of the NABBP addresses the national convention] He made a few suggestions, which he considered would have a beneficial effect. The principal one was to the effect that a sinking fund should be established for the purpose of defraying expenses necessarily incurred in spreading the national game abroad; that it would have a telling effect upon the great American game by sending eighteen representative players abroad to spread the game throughout the European countries, and sinking fund to be used in part for that purpose. Philadelphia Sunday Mercury December 15, 1867 see also New York Clipper 12/22/1867 the judiciary’s justification of the Athletics-Atlantics decision Charged that the Atlantic Club willfully violated section 39 on the 30th day of September, in refusing to present a nine to play a game previously agreed upon, wherefore the Athletic Club claims that the game in question should be accorded to them. The Committee decided that both clubs should appear at the place agreed upon within fifteen days, and proceed with their first nines to play the game as agreed upon. The Committee feel that, while the latter decision may seem unwarranted under the rules governing the game, yet the importance of the principle which should control every organization in the convention demanded that their powers should be liberally construed when a palpable injury may result to the interests of the game. Your Committee, therefore, in view of all the facts, felt bound to take an equitable view of this case, and they unite in expressing the belief that the higher the reputation of the contesting parties, the more careful should they be of so conducting our national game as to become exemplars to clubs of recent organization. Your Committee desire to say that, deeply feeling the grave responsibility imposed upon them in interpreting your laws, and in maintaining the purity of the game of base ball, they have endeavored to discharge their duty impartially and fearlessly... Ball Players Chronicle December 19, 1867 |
| Source | Philadelphia Sunday Mercury |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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