Clipping:The benefit of two professional clubs in one city
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| Date | Sunday, January 3, 1875 |
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| Text | The mistake made by the new St. Louis club in selecting their players entirely from the East is having its effect in bringing about the organization of a new St. Louis professional club, under the plan of co-operative-nine management. If this is carried out, it will have a tendency to largely increase the receipts of the regular stock-company organization, owing to the local rivalry which will be created in the struggle of the St. Louis Eastern regulars to defeat the St. Louis co-operative Western boys. This having two professional clubs in a large city was proved to be the right thing to do by the increased receipts brought about by the creation of the rival Philadelphia nine, they and the Athletics dividing nearly $50,000 in receipts in 1873. Chicago has made a mistake in not having two such nines, and St. Louis ti will be seen is to profit by her experience, as the organization of the co-operative nine there shows. What with contests between the St. Louis “regulars” and the “cops,” together with the games with the Chicagoes and Westerns, of Keokus, there would be lively baseball times out West in 1875. |
| Source | New York Sunday Mercury |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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