Clipping:The Athletics bring a keg of beer to a game
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| Date | Wednesday, September 5, 1888 |
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| Text | Not satisfied with going around “lushing” at night time, President Von der Ahe charges them [the Athletics' with bringing a keg of beer to the grounds on July 4. Speaking about this matter the other day Mr. Von der Ahe said: “Mr. Sharsig came to me and stated that the boys had a keg of beer [illegible] near the dressing room, and asked me whether I would not have the ground-keeper remove it from the grounds. I immediately went up to the dressing room and asked my ground-keeper whether there was any beer on the ground. He said he did not know. I have a negro employed to help the ground-keeper do his work, and from him I learned that the Athletics had a keg of beer further up along the fence, and that they gave him fifty cents to bring it in. I went up to where the Athletics were and saw that they had a keg of beer there. Seeing that none of my men were around I came back and told Sharsig of what I saw. Sharsig wanted me to have the keg removed. I told him it was none of my business what his players did and if he wanted the keg emptied he should empty it himself. To tell you the turth, it looked to me as if Sharsig was afraid to go up there to discipline his own men. When a manager is afraid of his own players they will, of course, have a picnic with him. Well, my players saw what was going on and they were happy, as they thought they were going to have an easy thing of it that afternoon. I was never so mad in my life as I was after that game. To think that we were beaten by a lot of drunken ball players riled me and I felt like selling out and quitting the business. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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