Clipping:The Mutuals can't buy a pennant; managing a professional nine
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| Date | Sunday, October 4, 1868 |
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| Text | The Mutual Club have had the pecuniary power in their hands or organizing the most powerful picked-nine in the country, and yet they have so managed affairs as to lose all the advantage their great facilities gave them. ... Now, there are two causes for what is called muffin-play, viz., incompetence to field well at all, and an over-anxiety on the part of fielders to do their very best, for fear of certain consequences, such as dismissal from an advantageous pecuniary position, or a suspicion of willful misplay. These latter causes are very influential in professional nines in inducing errors; and hence managers of professional nines, in order to develop the full skill of their nine, should so arrange things as to give each man a fair show to make his mark, and especially strive to make each man of the nine a member of the club, not in name and uniform only, but in his interest in the welfare of the organization he plays with. Until this is done, no club may expect tow in with their nine, no matter who the players are or what their celebrity who compose it. |
| Source | New York Sunday Mercury |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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