Clipping:Twenty-five cent admission for a benefit match

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Date Saturday, May 21, 1864
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A match between nine selected base ball players from New Jersey and nine of Pennsylvania would ordinarily excite attention, but when it is announced that twenty-five cents admission to be charged, and the proceeds given to the Great Sanitary Fair, then the affair becomes one of public importance. The match will take place on Wednesday, May 25, at two o’clock, on the beautiful grounds occupied by the Olympics, Athletic, and Mercantiles at the corner of Twenty-fifth and Jefferson streets. Seats will be provided for ladies, and it is expected that at least ten thousand persons will be in attendance. Fitzgerald's City Item May 21, 1864

It is a well known fact that no class in the community have excelled the base ball players of the chief cities of the North in the fervor of their patriotism, or in the cheerful willingness to tender their services, and if need be, offer up their lives in defense of the national honor and the glorious banner of the Union. Hundreds of ball players fill the honored graves of those who have thus nobly fallen, and thousands are now in the ranks of the Union army. This week we are to have their patriotism shown in another form, viz.: that of contributing to aid the funds of the Fair for the United States Sanitary Commission, the proffered assistance being in the form of a series of grand matches at base ball, which are to take place today, the 25th inst., and the three following days, on the new Union Ball Grounds, on Twenty-fifth and Jefferson streets, which are to be opened for the first time on the special occasion of the grand match, between selected men of Pennsylvania and New Jersey on the first day of the series of contests. … The admission is but 25 cents on each day. The Philadelphia Daily Age May 25, 1864 [attendance that day was c. 2000. The planned second and third games were rained out NYC 6/4/1864.]

… a numerous and highly-respectable assemblage of gratified spectators, a lively a well-played game, and the accession of $500 to the funds of the Sanitary Fair of Philadelphia. New York Sunday Mercury May 29, 1864

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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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