Clipping:The condition of the Knickerbocker Club
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| Date | Sunday, June 29, 1873 |
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| Text | The Knickerbockers are waking up to some old-time energy in playing amateur games, and they now have the strongest nine they have had for years past. There is no mistake about it, but a club to hold any lively existence must do battle in matches for baseball fame, and consequently must have a representative nine to place on the field. At the same time, it is equally essential that they do not sacrifice the interests of the merely exercising portion of the club to the getting up of a strong nine. To secure both interests is to preserve the happy medium of a baseball or cricket organization. Hitherto both games have suffered in regard to club interests by allowing the nine or the eleven to absorb all the attention of the club. Thus far the Knickerbockers have been the most successful club to combat and outlive the evils which have surrounded the game, simply because they have made the recreative principle of their organization the one most to be attended to. At the same time, it is equally necessary, in order to sustain the esprit de corps of a club, that some attention be paid to the getting up of a representative team to sustain the honor of the club flag in matches with other amateur clubs. The Knickerbockers still stick to their principle of not playing professional organizations, and thereby keep from dipping their fingers in gate money receipts, something too many of our so-called amateur clubs have done for some years past. No amateur club can share gate-money. The moment they do they become professionals. The Knickerbockers have an enclosed ground private to themselves, none but members or specially invited guests being allowed on the field. They opened their match-playing season on Wednesday last with a match on the old Morrisania Union Club grounds at Melrose, their opponents being the Arlingtons. |
| Source | New York Sunday Mercury |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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