Clipping:Organizing a semi-professional club; its grounds
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| Date | Saturday, April 14, 1877 |
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| Text | [regarding the New Bedford Association] The par value of the stock was fixed at $15 per share, instead of $10. The grounds of the Association will be known as the New Bedford Baseball Park. The location will include a lot situation on the north side of Kempton street, with a frontage on that street of 450 feet, and a depth of 350 feet. The Association hold a lease for three years, at $150 per year, with the privilege of a renewal for three years more. The ground is well adapted for the purpose, and will require but little grading or other preparation. Sections of seats eight tiers in height and 128 feet in length, for the accommodation of 500 people, will be erected in the southeast, and also in the northeast corner of the Park, nearly adjoining the grand-stand, which will accommodate 400 people, making the entire seating capacity 1,400. a movement is on foot to organize a nine with seven local players and two paid men. For the latter it is proposed to engage Pigott, third-base of last season's Fall Rivers, and Hoxie, who was change-catcher of the same club. |
| Source | New York Clipper |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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