Clipping:Reduced attendance; high admission fee
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| Date | Sunday, July 16, 1876 |
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| Text | The interest in baseball has been gradually decreasing for the past four years, and the once crowded ball-fields are reminiscences of the past. Both of the contesting clubs played for the honor of the game then, a deep interest was felt in it by leading men, and the ball-field was also graced by the fair sex, which is not now the case. Such a thing as crooked playing was then almost unknown. Every effort to arouse the old enthusiasm has proved a failure. Notwithstanding the almost unparalleled contests which have taken place this season the attendance has been so slim that visiting clubs can scarcely pay their traveling expenses. There is either too much ball playing or else the admission fee is more than the public can afford to pay during these hard times. The latter is the true cause, however; for if the admission fee was reduced to twenty-five cents, as it will have to be before another season is over, the managers would have no occasion to complain. |
| Source | New York Sunday Mercury |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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