Clipping:Increased admission price and creeping professionalism

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Date Sunday, October 28, 1866
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[Atlantics vs. Eureka 10/25/1866] The proprietor of the [Union] grounds was induced to give the two clubs one third the receipts for playing the match on his ground; and, as a matter of course, had to make up the deficit consequent upon this bonus by an increased charge. Whether the baseball public will again submit to anything of the kind, is a problem we should like to see solved. On occasions like that of the Athletic and Atlantic match, when such a vast crowd of people are eager to witness a game, an increased price, in order to lessen the crowd, is legitimate; but there was no such excuse on this occasion. But about fifteen hundred people were present, at the highest estimate; and, if the clubs each realized $100, they did more than we think they did; and for this amount of stamps they have lowered themselves in the estimation of the fraternity ten times the value. If anybody can make out this style of thing to be anything else but playing baseball for money, they will oblige us by showing us how they do it. However, the odium attached to such a business will have the effect of putting it down; for assuredly it will be the subject of discussion and censure in the Convention in December.

Source New York Sunday Mercury
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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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