Clipping:Country umpires vs. city umpires
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| Date | Sunday, July 18, 1869 |
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| Text | Here we take the most noted player as the best man for umpire, though the majority only know the rules as they have been taught them by experience in field practice, and not thoroughly at that; while in the country, the men chosen as umpires are generally those who have studied the rules from the books, and who have thereby fitted themselves for the position by properly learning the laws and how to interpret them. New York Sunday Mercury July 18, 1869 the training of the Cincinnati nine Now that [New York clubs] have been badly beaten on their own grounds, at the game they thought they excelled in, by players generally regarded as not more than their equals at best, and by many as their inferiors, they have woke up to the fact that training and regular habits are, after all, the most important elements of success in a professional nine. If we were to place the Cincinnati nine in the hands of the same management which has hitherto controlled our leading professional clubs, and allow them to follow the same course of action, they would are no better than our nines have done—they have not done when they have been so placed. It is not the excellence of the players so much as it is the soundness of the training they have been obliged to follow. New York Sunday Mercury July 18, 1869 |
| Source | New York Sunday Mercury |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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