Clipping:The condition of the Excelsior Club 2
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| Date | Thursday, March 15, 1877 |
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| Text | [The Excelsior] Club held its twenty-second annual meeting Monday, and the attendance at the handsome Club House on Clinton street was numerous and influential. The day was when the Excelsiors stood at the head of the amateur base ball class of the country. Organizing from 1855 from that time until 1860, their rise in position as the strongest, wealthiest and most influential of base ball clubs of the period, was rapid and noteworthy. From 1860, when the Club's triumphant career culminated to 1870 they gradually fell out of line as a base ball organization and for the past years have only been a ball club in name, they simply existing on the old fame of the Excelsior Base Ball Club. Now they rank with the Brooklyn Club as a social organization and as far as base ball is practically concerned they might as well be called the Excelsior Polo Club, for they have given up the notion of games for years, their players having become too “rusty” to take the field against the strong players now occupying positions in the base ball arena. |
| Source | Brooklyn Eagle |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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