Clipping:Byrne on the percentage plan to split gate receipts
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| Date | Wednesday, July 27, 1887 |
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| Text | [from an interview of Byrne] From a purely business standpoint, and this is the issue only upon which the question will finally be determined, the Brooklyn Club will oppose any such plan, unless it can be clearly shown that the positive welfare of the Association as a body depends upon such a change. The Brooklyn Club is located in the third, and I believe actually now the second city of the Union, if a census were taken this year. We have invested a large capital in our business and are constantly making improvements to make our place attractive for our patrons. Our people appreciate what we have done and give us liberal patronage, and I can't see why we should share with our neighbors the harvest we are now reaping after years of patient waiting and hard work. I know of no legitimate business where people are so carried away by brotherly love as to divide with their neighbors and I cannot see why base ball, with the immense capital invested throughout the country, should be any exception to the plain business rule, viz.: Let everyone get the benefit arising from risking his capital and the exercise of earnest endeavor and enterprise. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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