Clipping:Boston Club attendance, finances
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| Date | Sunday, September 25, 1887 |
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| Text | The Boston Base Ball Association has had a remarkably successful season financially, even though its team does not hold better than fifth position. During the home season, which was concluded Saturday, they played sixty of the sixty-three games scheduled, at which the total attendance was 261,000, an average of 4,350 to a game. This means that the Boston public paid $130,500 for admission fees. To this must be added at least $20,000 for grand stand, making a total of $150,000. On the first exhibition trip the club cleared $2,000, and they got $3,000 the Fourth of July at Detroit. At the sixty-three games away from home the guarantee amounts to $7,875, and on the three postponed games to be played off with Chicago they will get at least $6,000 more. To this may be added about $3,000 from exhibition games played and to be played. This would make the total receipts for the year $167,375. From this deduct salary of players, $34,750; salary of directors, $7,500; traveling expenses, $6,000; interest on mortgage, $3,600; taxes, $1,690; amount paid for Kelly’s release, $10,000; advertising and printing, $1,000; say altogether $64,540. This would leave a balance of $102,835. As the various privileges of the ball grounds will about pay for the care and maintenance thereof, it is safe to say on rough figuring that the association will end the season $100,000 ahead. Of course these figures are not official, but simply a calculation based on what is known of the club’s public transactions. The Philadelphia Times September 25, 1887, quoting the Boston Globe. |
| Source | Philadelphia Times |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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