Clipping:The decline of regular amateur clubs
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| Date | Saturday, July 29, 1882 |
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| Text | Amateur ball playing of late years, in the metropolis has taken up a new phase of its existence, which differs from its club life of twenty odd years ago; and that is the substitution of commercial nines in the place of the regular club nines of old. This has been brought about chiefly by the difficulty of obtaining regular club grounds to play on; the free public ball fields, such as the Parade ground at Prospect Park affords, presenting excellent facilities for playing games between extemporized nines, while regular club grounds are not at command, that is grounds used exclusively by one club. Within the past two or three years these commercial nine matches have come to be the great feature of amateur ball playing in the metropolis; and by amateur play we do not mean that so called amateur class who are but one remove from the regular professional class, but genuine amateurs, such as the Knickerbockers, the Gothams, the Eagle, et al were of old. |
| Source | Metropolitan |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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