Clipping:The trophy ball is a symbolic prize; the price of a baseball

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Date	Sunday, July 24, 1859
Text	[from Correspondence] A club challenges another to play a match, and furnishes the ball, as is usual and customary. The challenging club wins the match. Ought not the vanquished club furnish the winning club with a ball, as a trophy of victory? [Answer:] We should say not. The strife in a game is not for a ball, as a piece of property. Mr. Van Horn, of second avenue, will furnish the best kind of balls for a dollar and a quarter each; and if a ball were the only aim of contestants, it would be cheaper to buy them than to play for them. The aim is victory, and the evidence thereof is the ball used on the occasion; and as a trophy of victory, it possesses a value greater than a brand new ten shilling ball. The challenging club, having won the game, is in possession of the trophy ball, and that is all they should desire.
Source	New York Sunday Mercury
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Submitted by	Richard Hershberger
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