Clipping:Free passes to city politicians for Sunday baseball
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| Date | Wednesday, April 6, 1887 |
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| Text | There is one thing certain and that is that if the Cincinnatis' gates are not thrown upon [sic: probably “open”] to the Councilmen and Aldermen there will be a revival feeling among the city fathers that Sunday base ball in injurious to the moral good of the city. Several years ago the Board of Police Commissioners attempted a clever “shake down” on the Reds, closed the grounds and set a detail of police out to the Union Park and shut down on the “Wild West.” The effort was spasmodic, but if the club would bar out these people in authority they would soon find themselves in a peck of trouble. That twenty-five-free-tickets limit rule will be hard to enforce against the pressure of municipal thumb-screws that would at once be applied by blackmailers under the mask of those acting for the public good. To close the ball park on Sunday and allow the dives and concert halls to keep their doors wide open would be manifestly unjust, and yet that is what has been tried in the past. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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