The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-05-19

accompanying table the cost Is not less
than $1,000 per club. and there are nine
ty-tw clubs.
On this basis the cost for a season OF
tho baseball plants accounted for figures
out:
National and American leagues. 1892 900
Class a leagues .,........,......7 126. 900
Class slcague..... 10000
Class G leagues .................. 10000
Total ..................... 1886, 900
Travelling Expenses.
Even the necessary evils of baseball
come high. That means the umpire. The
accompanying table accounts for 232
league teams, and to enable that number
of teams to play ball according to rule
at least 1l6 umpires must be provided.
Nearly every league OF consequence car
rles ono extra umpire through the sea-
son. not because umpires ever actually
are destroyed on the field OF battle, but
because 1t has been found advisable for
many reasonH to adopt that policy. The
number OF extra umpircs easily increases
the total OF the tribe In active service In
q playing season to $40.
The seasons costs OF this one depart
ment OF the game sh0wns up like this:
National and American leagues. $4,000
Glass A and Tri-State leagues.... 10000
Glass B leagues ................,. $500
Glass G leagues OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. $4,000
All other leagues .........,.,..... $500
Total OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. $l69, 300
There are many channels besides those
thus far considered In which the club
owners must keep the stream OF coin
Ho rrnov OF
be paid, the league machinery must be
kept In running order provision must
be made for ante-season training for the
players. uniforms and balls must be
bought etc.
At least forty clubs pay their managers
$4,000 season, on the average, and al
least twenty more league clubs pay their
managers 81 900 a season. This makes
another little item OF 100000
Spring Training.
Spring training has come to require q
large outlay by the club owners Of the
National and American leagues. Not
every branch OF players is taken On q
seelng-American excursion such as the
Giants and the White sox were blown Of
to this spring. Of course yet all tho bic
league clubs come In for something
nearly as good.
II has been estimated that the average
cost of. the spring training OF major.
league team is $4,000. This seems tor
low, In view Of the large number OF play.
ors In each squad and the COS. in rail.
road fare OF getting. them together bu
because Of its origin it Is not to be cues.
toned. At $4,000 each the cost Of thu
spring training Of the sixteen clubs o
tho National and American leagues !!
500, 900.
Uniforms cost on the average not lest
than $40, apiece, the price ranging from
| IS TO SIS. OF the 3,028 players accounted
for, ut least half are provided with twt
uniforms each, making $4,000 to b
charged up for this item.
II a team uses twenty dozen balls In
season and pays SIS n dozen for them
| tho cost Is. $500. Some teams don't usl
as many as. that, but other teams us'
many more. so twenty dozen seems to b.
| a fair estimate. With 2a2 teams &C
counted for In the accompanying table
the sum total paid out for balls woull
| be $4,000 II the club owners were re
lquired to pay for all they use.
But they are not required to pay 70
| all they USE The manufacturers slv
] away thousands of balls every season an
charge the gifts to advertising. Cut tn
apparent cost In two, mailing s34SO0, an,
YOU have about what the club owner
pay out for balls,
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