Clipping:New York reserve team

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Date Wednesday, April 6, 1887
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The New York Club is very sanguine that its reserve-team plan will prove more successful than has been the case hitherto with other clubs who have tried it. Manager Mutrie thinks their failture was due to lack of proper management and support. The players will be in charge of Mr. W. H. Becqannon, whose service as a ball player, umpire and manager has given his sufficient experience to handle the club with profit. …

A column might be written about the advantages and disadvantages of this reserve-team scheme. Of course the main idea of forming an auxiliary nine is to develop young players so that if any of the regular League men are disabled or in any way prove unsatisfactory during the season, the management may have a new class of men to draw on to fill the places. This is plausible, but not so feasible. The Philadelphia Club in its reserve team of 1884 had a lot of most promising youngsters, but only one, Fogarty, developed well enough to become a member of the regular team. This one player was all the club got out of a large outlay of money. Some of the other youngsters have since become players, but they did not develop quickly enough to make it worth while for a club to carry them. New York will likely have precisely the same experience. If Manager Becannon could keep the team employed throughout the season expenses at least might be cleared. But after the championship season of all the base ball organizations opens nobody will have any use for exhibition games with a reserve team, and the team will either have to lie idle and eat its head off or else be discharged with the possible exception of one or two men who give extraordinary promise of future excellence.

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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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