Clipping:The new organization of clubs
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| Date | Saturday, July 17, 1869 |
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| Text | THE MUTUAL NINE.–This club which has within a short time lost much of its prestige, is to undergo a severe “course of sprouts” at the hands of the efficient President of the Club, Mr. John Wildey. Mr. Wildey is eminently fitted to take charge of the nine, and under his control the club will, no doubt, soon regain much of its former prestige. The Union Ground, Williamsburgh, has been secured two days in the week for practice for the balance of the season. The men are paid a salary for the season, and Mr. Wildey takes the right view of the case when he says that he will consider the nine as so many persons in his employ, and will hold them to accountability for absences and make proportionate reduction from salary. The arrangement of matches is to be left to Mr. Wildey’s judgment. He is sais to have declared that if possible he will so arrange it that the nine will play every pleasant day of the season. The recent action of the club has met with general commendation, and it will not be surprising if one or two more professional clubs will adopt this directing system. Tuesday afternoon the Mutuals had their first practice-game under the new regime. National Chronicle July 17, 1869 The reorganization of the Mutual Club on a regular professional basis–that is, with a picked nine of trained and practiced players, under the control of one responsible leader instead of that of a Board of Directors with divided counsels–is the latest topic of interest in metropolitan baseball circles. It is a little singular that the leading clubs of New York, Brooklyn, and Philadelphia should be driven by actual experience only to realize the importance of thorough training, with its constant practice and attention to regular habits of living, as the great essential of success in the baseball-nine; but so it is. The several books of baseball, in articles on the organization of club nines and on the method of training them to excel in the game, have pointed out, for several years past how a club should go to work, and what it should do to place itself in a leading position as a strong-playing club; and yet, season after season have city-club managers and directors kept on in the old beaten track of incompetent management, only to be urged forward by degrees through actual and costly experience to adopt the advice which they had regarded as merely book-theories. No so, however, has it been with clubs in other cities, and especially out West. There, having no record of the experience of their own clubs to go by, they have wisely adopted the precepts of the books issued from the headquarters of baseball at New York, and we see the result in the brilliant success of the Cincinnati Club, which is the only organization in the country which has illustrated sound theories by their practice. New York Sunday Mercury July 18, 1869 |
| Source | National Chronicle |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
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