Clipping:The state of amateur baseball
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| Date | Sunday, July 23, 1876 |
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| Text | the once strong and powerful Amateur Association has, through mismanagement, almost faded out of existence; that is so far as carrying out the rules are concerned. The officers and judiciary committee, no doubt, mean well; at least they made a feint at holding various clubs to a strict accountability for their misdemeanors last season. It must be said, however, that it was fruitless, as the clubs who violated the rules paid about as much attention to the demands of that committee to answer certain charges filed against them as they did to the rules before violating them. The loose manner in which affairs were conducted last season only encouraged the amateur clubs throughout the country, in being bolder and more daring in their violations this season. A certain club, in this vicinity, which would have scoffed at the idea of being other than strictly amateur, even as late as last season, makes no secret, whatever, of their paying a pitcher, the present one. It is almost impossible to find, at the present time, and amateur club that lives strictly up to their rules. If such there are the public should be made acquainted with the fact at once. |
| Source | New York Sunday Mercury |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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