Clipping:The advantages of a professional 'club' nine
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| Date | Sunday, July 19, 1868 |
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| Text | [Eckfords vs. Atlantics 7/16/1868] This game, by-the-way, afforded a practical illustration of the immense advantage of forming a professional nine on a club basis; this is, of making it not so much a “picked nine” members of one organization, but of organizing the nine as a club-nine, in which each man, besides having a pecuniary interest in the games played, would also have a club-feeling in the success of the nine. It is in this respect that the Atlantics occupy the most advantageous position of any of the prominent organizations of the country, as all in the nine have been members of the club for years, not a man being in it who joined later than the spring of 1866. The lack of this very element is a weak spot in the Eckford nine; for Martin is a new man, and as yet apparently has not won the suffrages of the club, and some others of the nine also are new to the club, and hence things do not work together in a match as they will do, no doubt, when a greater familiarity with each other’s play is arrived at. When the old Eckford nine worked together, they played for the name of the club as if a defeat was death to the individual hopes of every man in the nine. It is this esprit de corps which is an essential element of success in club nines, and it is these which nearly every prominent club now lacks more or less except the Atlantics, the Mutual Club most of all. |
| Source | New York Sunday Mercury |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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