Clipping:Florida as a spring training site
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| Date | Wednesday, February 19, 1890 |
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| Text | John Montgomery Ward, the great ball player, played short for the New York Club last season, and through whose efforts the metropolis won the League pennant, arrived in this city [Tampa] this afternoon. … “What do you think of Florida as headquarters during winter for professional ball players?” he was asked. “From what I have seen I should think it just the place,” replied Ward. “Ball players need practice in mild climate a month or six weeks before the season opens in the North. The y may spend hours daily in a gymnasium and get their muscles as hard as iron, but that does very little good. They go out in the open air, sprain a joint, strain a muscle, or catch cold, and run the risk of being laid up for the best part of the season. With out of door work in a climate like this, men become limbered up, so to speak. That is, their muscles are elastic and in working order, ready for actual work. It seems to me that manager of these magnificent hotels in Florida have excellent opportunity to make base all a great attraction throughout the winter season. It would pay them to club together and secure a good team of professional men. Make it a local club, and if they could get good local material so much the better. With a first-class club, arrangements could easily be made with Northern teams to come down and play. Hotel managers should pay these men just as they do their musicians, and guests of hotels should be provided with cards of admission. |
| Source | New York Sun |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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