Clipping:Barnie on Frank Grant and the color line
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| Date | Sunday, October 16, 1887 |
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| Text | Manager Barnie stopped a while in Buffalo and watched the playing of Kappel, late of the Cincinnatis, and of Grant, the colored second baseman. Barnie says he will never draw the color line; that the Baltimore Club will play with colored clubs of recognized ability, as it did in New Jersey the other day, and that if he could improve the nine by the addition of a first-class player he would do so. The Philadelphia Times October 16, 1887 Barnie doesn't believe in the color line, and is quoted as saying that if any first-class colored man would improve his team he would employ him. Nevertheless his players would have something to say about that. The Sporting Life October 26, 1887 two umpires in the World Series; the expense The two-umpire system was a great success. During the first game both Comiskey and Latham would have been declared out by the umpire back of the plate, as it looked as if Dunlap had put the ball onto them; but Kelly was right at second, and he told me after the game that Dunlap had not only failed to touch the base-runners, but that he did not come within a foot of either one of them. It is not probable, however, that the system will be adopted, as it would be rather than expensive thing to keep up a double force of umpires. The Sporting Life October 19, 1887 Kelly and Gaffney's double umpire act has been closely watched by base ball enthusiasts here [New York]. Everybody likes it, except, possibly, the managers, who are frightened at the additional expenses such a combine would entail. The scheme, however, suits the public, and that ought to have more weight than the objections of a few penny-wise managers. Ferguson says two umpires will make just as many mistakes as one, but that the public likes it and looks upon double umpires with confidence, and as the public is the one that keeps the game going, it is the one that be catered to. The Sporting Life October 26, 1887 [from an interview of John Kelly, World Series umpire] “How did the system of having two umpires work?” “Beautifully. It could not have been better. There was very little kicking done during the games. From the first to the last game the two nines received a thoroughly fair and impartial deal.” The Sporting Life November 9, 1887 |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
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