Clipping:Hints of skullduggery in Baltimore
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| Date | Sunday, January 31, 1875 |
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| Text | [quoting an unnamed Baltimore newspaper:] After three momentous years in the professional arena, we take a back seat, content to realize that the end has come, and with it, the relief that none can so appreciate as those who were numbered among the officers. The inside history of the game here has never been written, and for the benefit of the sport we trust it never will be. The game will never prosper here again (if it ever did) until we can produce such an honest set of players as Harry Wright always places in the field. Even should we ever succeed in doing so, some one of the nine will be sure to start a cigar store, and we would end as before–in smoke. To some it may be pleasant to recall those days of enthusiasm when viewed safely in the distance. When ‘the boys’ in their most guileless manner enchanted the enraptured stockholders–when diamonds, watches, clothes and what-not, were lavished upon them in all the profusion of generosity and extravagance. Of what did it avail us? Did we receive any more honest labor or renewed endeavors to win? No: but we acquired the experience that will serve us right royally in the uncertain future, and which weighs in the balance far heavier than these base baubles of man’s insatiable avarice. Of a few of these ‘trophies from Baltimore,’ we find a watch in the St. Louis club, a diamond cluster ring in the Chicagos, two watches in Philadelphia, two watches in Brooklyn, one records the flight of time in the ‘Nutmeg State,’ while diamond studs, watch, chain and charms, cuff buttons, and et cetera, attest in Boston our inexperience and indiscretion in Baltimore. |
| Source | New York Sunday Mercury |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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