Clipping:Baseball, bat sales and manufacture
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| Date | Tuesday, May 14, 1889 |
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| Text | “The number of base-balls used in this country must be something enormous,” said a dealer in the popular spheres yesterday. “Since the 1 st of April we have sold more than 150 gross, or 21,600 balls of various sizes and makes. Of course, this is all a jobbing trade, but the balls have been sold within thirty miles of Troy. It is a small estimate when I say that in the city of Troy, between May 1 and Ot. 1, more than 60,000 balls are used up every year, while in the country supplies by Troy three times as many are sold. The balls run in price from 5 cents to $1.50; the former are merely lumps of leather soaked in water and pressed by machinery into shape. The latter are carefully built from the very start, and represent the acme of ball-9making. They are used by the professional ball-players and by many of the amateur leagues in the field. The best bat is known as the 'wagon-tongue' bat. The makes say that they send out agents and buy up all the wagon tongues that have been worn out or broken during the year. The tongues are turned into bats, and the seasoned ash, hardened by use, makes the best bat known. Last year we sold out or stock of wagon-tongue bats in the middle of the season. We could not replenish the stock for love or money, and the bat-makers told us the above story and added that they had used up all the old wagon-tongues they could find., quoting the Troy Times |
| Source | Indianapolis Journal |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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