Clipping:Too many games; the fifty cent admission; exhibition games on League grounds
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| Date | Saturday, February 2, 1878 |
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| Text | [from a letter to the editor by Harry Wright dated January 25] That baseball has been overdone, as far as the number of games is concerned, is generally admitted. In this city the number of persons who can and will attend thirty matches in a season is not large enough to pay expenses. I do not believe that a reduction of the admission fee to 25 cents would help the matter, as there are plenty who are willing to pay 50 cents, but who cannot spare the time. Now it has been seen in Boston, as well as in other League cities, that non-League or non-championship games, will not draw. In nineteen games upon our grounds in 1877 with the Lowells, Stars, Indianapolis, Allegheny, Tecumseh, Harvard, Live Oak, Manchester and Our Boys clubs the gross receipts were but little over an average of $100 a game; our share averaged $53.70 to a match, and from this we had to pay ground expenses and advertising. The admission to some of them was 25 cents, and to others 50 cents, and any one of the first six named clubs could play us a close and interesting game. We have been able to see that our having those games upon our grounds has not been free from harm to us. Players have unwisely shown a disposition to play carelessly in non-championship games, and in many cases I know that spectators have shown their disapproval by staing away from championship matches. The main point, however, was that the time had come to reduce the number of games played, and, of course we decided to discontinue those which had paid us the least. |
| Source | New York Clipper |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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