Clipping:Owned versus leased grounds

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Date Friday, April 6, 1888
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[from an interview of Spalding] No the [Boston] club owns the grounds and can afford to put up a $75,000 grand stand. The Chicago club has leased grounds and for that reason cannot afford to erect an elegant and substantial grand stand. When we get grounds of our own, Chicago will have a grand stand second to none. As it is, only Philadelphia and Boston will have better stands this season, and until the Philadelphia club's new grounds were opened last year the Chicago club's stand was the finest in the country. But give us the grounds we want and we will give the people the finest stand in the land.

Source Chicago Tribune
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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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