Clipping:Kicking and coaching
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| Date | Monday, May 24, 1886 |
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| Text | [an editorial] The are two things nowadays taht go hand in hand with successful ball playing. These two are good coaching and good kicking. The Chicago and St. Louis Brown Stocking Clubs are the only teams in the country well-equipped in these respects. One stands at the head of one class and one at the head of the other. It may not be that their has placed them in the lead, but there is not a doubt but that those two qualities have a good deal to do with their fine standing. In base ball, as in all other lines, success brings with it a coterie of friends and followers and eclat and praise follow every victory. Hence it behooves every team striving for standing in the various associations to get there in any manner shape or form, by any means, either fair or foul, so they come within the letter of the rules. If shouting and howling and hooting and hurrahing will annoy and weaken the enemy, then should and howl, and hoot and hurrah just so you get there. But see that you get there, and get there quickly. Pay no attention to friend or enemy, but go into the game with bood in your eye, and if you are coacher, with your throat cleared and your trumpet in position. Your work, remember, at the close of the season, will be judged not by the little kicking you have done and by your good behavior, but by the position you hold in the race. If it is a good one, benefits and banquets will follow. If it is a poor one, you will be allowed to leave the city at your earliest convenience, and to return never. So kick, howl and hurrah while the season is yet young and proceed to get there. And get there as quickly as possible, in any way or manner you like, by any means, so they are honest and fair, and by any route you may choose, just so you get there. |
| Source | Sporting News |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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