Clipping:The Nationals ground
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| Date | Sunday, September 23, 1866 |
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| Text | [Excelsiors vs. Nationals 9/18/1866] The inclosed space known as the “President’s grounds” was on this occasion partially inclosed by the erection of an amphitheatre of seats on the east and west sides of the ballfield, the other portion being inclosed by a rope fence extending from the platform-seats around the field. For the seats in the amphitheatre a charge was made, but the crowd in general were admitted free to a full view of the proceedings outside the rope line, and some five or six thousand people witnessed the contest from this latter position. About two thousand were provided with seats, those on the west side being reserved for ladies; but so great was the pressure of crinoline on the occasion, and so deeply interested in base-ball games have the fair sex of Washington of late become, that a portion of the seats on the east side had to be given up to the ladies, the gathering of the fair admirers of the two clubs forming a galaxy of beauty and fashion far surpassing any previous assemblage of the kind we have ever before witnessed. |
| Source | New York Sunday Mercury |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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