Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-02-26
BOSTON BASEBALL
w. I. Harris Writes of the Com
ing Seasons Probabilities.
LEAGUE AND PLAYERS COMPARED
The brotherhood Team Has tn. Advan-
tsge iiehind the Bat, hut This Is Onset,
80 That the Chances. Apparently, Are
About Even.


tsge Rehind the BAT. but This Is Offset,
so That the Chances, Apparently, Are
About Even.
The popularity Of baseball in Boston is
tremendous. There is no manner Of doubt a.
to the status of thecapital Of Massachusetts, a.
a baseball city merely. 1t is the banner city
and the admission price cuts no figure. Price
is nothing, quantity everything. Boston
cranks are peculiar. They will cheerfully
give up fifty cents aud a dollar for gilt edged
ball, where they wouldn't pay ten cents for
third rate article. OF course a cheap team
at twenty-five cents would draw a few hun.
dred people every day, but the people Whose
attendance makes baseball profitable would
remain away. The experiment has been
tried there, and a great deal Of money has
been lost from time TO time In such ventures.
No one knows these facts better than the
three men who are the owners Of the Boston
League club. They realized at the very out
set that IL they expected 10 hold their patron
age they must get a prize team together.
They wasted no time in law suits, and didn't
wait for one man to do this and another man
TO do that. IL was get up and hustle and
they made a business OF il, and the result has
been a lesson for some other very slow people
TO remember for many a day b. come. The
Boston League club is ready for the fray,
thoroughly equipped with a first class team,
which Is superior TO the Brotherhood team in
some things and inferior to il in Yply one
thing, and even in that time may show that
the difference is not material enough to have
very great influence IN the gate.
A ten years residence in Boston has to some
extent qualified me to give al opinion as to
the baseball situation there, so far as the
question OF patronag, and the kind and quail.
ity of baseball it viii stand. An absence Of
two years, Of coui sc, dlsqualiiies me as a
judge of public feel ng as regards the League
versus the Brother lood, except in a general
way. 1t is my OF mon that from May | TO
Oct. l Boston cam Ut have too much baseball.
There would be a good paying attendance IL
there wNs a gams every day during that pc
riod, provided always that the quality OF the
game was Of thu highest standard. II there
is any city in america where two first class
professional clubs can live and both make
money, that cisy is Boston; hence the chances
for the success II the Brotherhood are greater
In Boston than anywhere else.
! do not now much about the public
pulse on the sympathy question. Baseball
patrons are tickle. They like good ball. They
soon overcome ~prejadIces II these prejudices
are not fostered by the newspapers. The
chances are that among the people whose dol.
lars make paying games possible in Boston,
the sentiment is a little in favor OF the Play.
ers, but ! do not believe that il will figure to
any extent In keeping people away from the
League grounds. Ball cranks are like thea.
tire goers. They are going to look at the show
and not the proprietors. II they get the real
article, personal dislike of the management
will not have much influence. The baseball
patrons 60 10 see the game, and want it well
played and squarely played. That is all.
sympathy for the Players won't make them
rich OF make the Boston League management
poor. The present prospect is that before
the season is half over the patronage will be
divided in Boston. II there were eight Bos-
tons the Brotherhood would surely succeed
II wisely and j~udiciously managed.
Now let US see what kind of teams the
rivals are going to have. Here's the list Of
each: