Clipping:Taking up a collection for home runs

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Date Wednesday, July 7, 1886
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The Eastern League audiences seem to be taking up a bad practice discarded in the South. At Meriden last Saturday Murphy and Grant were presented with $42, collected in the grand stand, for home runs, and Umpire Farrow actually called the game to permit the gift to be made at the home plate.

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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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