Clipping:The Mansfields enter the championship

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Date Sunday, April 21, 1872
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The Mansfield Club, claiming to be amateurs all last year, and this past winter, sent $10 to Mr. Davidson to enter the championship arena. It would be a rich note if every such amateur nine were permitted to block up the championship arena with their games, which would be the case if they were allowed to enter. All the clubs that can legally be entered for the championship streamer are in the arena now, and no more can be admitted. The clubs that are in now if they complete the series they are engaged to play will do well, considering that the aggregate is four hundred and fifty games. New York Sunday Mercury April 21, 1872

...the Mansfield Club, of Connecticut, a club which in March last was in the Amateur Convention, but which lately entered the professional championship arena by consent of the all-powerful championship committee of the professional association, that learned body being of opinion that they have not given the ten professional clubs sufficient work to do to play forty-five games each this season, and so added fifty more games to the list by letting in the newly-fledged professional Mansfields. New York Sunday Mercury April 28, 1872

By special permission [of the championship committee] the Mansfield Club, of Middletown, Conn.,...will be permitted to join the contest. This has been done on account of the Mansfield boys having gone to great trouble and expense to put a nine in the field which will compete well with many of the other entries. Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch April 28, 1872

Source New York Sunday Mercury
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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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