Clipping:Are the Athletics professionals?
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Date | Sunday, August 2, 1868 |
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Text | Very many persons, both at home and abroad, suppose that the Athletics are professional players, which up to this writing we are positive and free to state is not the case. But we have insisted, and shall continue to insist, as long as they are receiving the credit of being professionals, that they will insist upon receiving a share of the “spoils.” It is right that they should receive it. We know further, that no one of the boys, on their recent tour West, received a cent of salary; though the Western players everywhere considered them in the light of professionals, and so accorded them; but never once offensively. So much for the Athletics being professionals. |
Source | Philadelphia Sunday Mercury |
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Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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