Clipping:Turn out for an honest match; a 'championship match' between non-champions

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Date Sunday, September 18, 1870
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[Athletic vs. Mutual 9/15/1870] Because several of the contests between prominent clubs this season had been slimly attended, the idea has been entertained that baseball was played out. Now, such a notion is simply absurd. The game was never more popular than now, and the only thing connected with baseball which is played out is the so-called social, practice, or gate-money matches, in which the sole incentive to exertion is the stamps received at the gate. This style of matches ought to be played out; but as for the attraction of such a match as this third game of the championship series between the Mutual and Athletic Clubs there is no play out at all for such contests, and will not be. Professional clubs would do well to remember this fact in future, and play fewer games, and more earnest contests than they have done this season. New York Sunday Mercury September 18, 1870 [The attendance was 4,000 at 50 cents.]

Source New York Sunday Mercury
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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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