Clipping:Baseball isn't like it was in the good old days
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| Date | Thursday, January 9, 1868 |
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| Text | [a column by “Peto Brine”] Somehow or other, they don’t play ball nowadays, as they used to some eight or ten years ago. I don’t mean to say that they don’t play it as well, for the fact is I never saw the game played in the splendid style it was last season. But I mean that they don’t play with the same kind of feelings or for the same objects they used to. It appears to me that ball matches have come to be controlled by different parties and for different purposes than those which prevailed in 1858 or ‘59. Just look at last season’s games if you want to understand what I’m driving at, and then think of the games which were played in Brooklyn and Hoboken ten years ago. Look at the class of men who now fix up your matches, and then think of the fair and square style of men who controlled your clubs in the good old times of base ball. Ah! It’s a pity things are so, boys; but I tell you now, you’ve got to put a stop to this heavy betting business, and to get your clubs out of the hands of the politicians, or the first thing you’ll know will be that every respectable man will be down upon your game like a thousand of brick. But it’s no use talking like a father to you fellows; you’re in for “biz” in playing your matches now, and have forgotten the time when your club’s name stood higher as a fair and square club than it does now. When I say “your club,” I mean that you can take the cap and put it on, and if it fits, keep it there. |
| Source | American Chronicle of Sports and Pastimes |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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