Clipping:Athletics' admission price
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| Date | Thursday, April 26, 1877 |
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| Text | We have been looking at the business future of the Athletic club, and we really don’t see how they can afford to play important games at a quarter of a dollar. If the attendance were as large as it sued to be it could easily be done. But with only three or four hundred people on the ground the club will starve to death. If something could be done to awaken enthusiasm, and bring out two or three thousand people, twenty-five cents would be enough. But it looks as if they would be compelled to charge fifty cents, or even a dollar, for important games. The public have themselves only to blame for this state of affairs. Philadelphia Item April 26, 1877 The public should understand that it will be quite impossible to play important games for less than fifty cents. All the League Clubs are compelled, as we understand, to charge fifty cents. Any smaller price than that would only lead to disaster in the long run; therefore, our citizens will not grumble when they see the matter cannot be helped. Philadelphia Item May 1, 1877 the League demands a livelier ball [reporting on the NL Board of Directors meeting of 4/26/1877[ The Association also ordered Mr. Mann, the manufacturer of the League regulation ball, to make his balls more lively than those already sent out. It was at first believed that the balls as formerly ordered would be lively enough, but in this they were all mistaken. The change in the ball will not affect the amount of the rubber, but simply the wrapping of the yarn. Cincinnati Enquirer April 27, 1877 There has never been any special admiration for “kedunk” hits and 1-0 games in this city. People who pay an admittance fee want to see somthing going on, and nothing disgusts them more than to see a strong, active man hit a ball a furious blow and then have it hop along toward the short-stop. It isn’t manly, and it isn’t base-ball. It’s some sort of a child’s game. Chicago Tribune April 29, 1877 |
| Source | Philadelphia Item |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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