Clipping:Buffalo Club finances; should be dropped from the League
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
 |
| Add a Clipping |
| Date | Sunday, November 4, 1883 |
|---|---|
| Text | A good deal has been said about the Buffalo club, and it has generally been regarded as in extremes, financially. Its managers, however, claim that the club made money the past season, their last four games at Boston, when their share netted them $2,500, giving them a balance on the right side of the ledger. … There seems to be a wonderful vitality about this organization. Every year predictions are freely made that it will drop out of the league, and give room for a team in a paying city. But every year a few enthusiastic and wealthy gentlemen put their hands in their pockets, pay up all deficiencies, provide the necessary advance money and put the same team, with hardly a change in its arrangement, into the arena for another “go” at the championship, which they can never hope to capture. As a matter of fact Buffalo ought to be dropped out of the League as Troy and Worcester were last year. It has a better team than that of either of the last named cities, but the Buffalo audiences are so small that a visiting club's share of the gate receipts is rarely large enough to pay its hotel bills, to say nothing of salaries and traveling expenses. (St. Louis) |
| Source | Missouri Republican |
| Tags | |
| Warning | |
| Comment | Edit with form to add a comment |
| Query | Edit with form to add a query |
| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
Comments
<comments voting="Plus" />