Clipping:The Boston club predicated on signing the Wright brothers
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| Date | Saturday, January 21, 1871 |
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| Text | [from an address by Ivers. W. Adams to the founding stockholders of the Boston BB Association:] Twelve months ago the idea of a professional nine for Boston first entered my mind, and at that time I determined ...that our city should have a nine and a club she would be proud of. I determined it should be first class in every particular; that the greatest care should be exercised that men of good character and temperate habits only should belong to its nine; that they should be men of unquestioned abilities as players and therefore good teachers of the sports; that they should agree to conform to all the rules and regulations of the club, and should be under the complete control of the captain of the nine. I determined, further, from satisfactory information which I possessed myself of, that I should secure Harry and George Wright first, and, failing to secure them, should let the whole matter drop. This position was taken from a firm conviction that they were the only two men possessing the knowledge and ability to manage and discipline a nine known to myself, and in whose honesty and integrity I could place implicit confidence... |
| Source | Boston Herald |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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