Clipping:A Chicago Base Ball Academy
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| Date | Wednesday, November 21, 1883 |
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| Text | [Spalding's] plan contemplates the engagement of ten or twelve auxiliary players separate and apart from the regular members of the Chicago team. These auxiliary players will be drawn from semi-professional and first-class amateur ranks, and opportunity will be afforded to young men of ball-playing qualifications and tendencies to demonstrate, under careful and competent supervision, their possibilities as exponents of the game. … The auxiliary team, which may perhaps be called “Chicago No. 2, “ or following the style of English cricket clubs, “Chicago Colts,” will be under the direct charge of Capt. Anson for daily practice and training, and he will exercise to the utmost his skill and tact in ascertaining the special and peculiar qualifications of the players who shall enroll themselves as students in the “Base Ball Academy” of the Chicago Club. A large number of applications have already been received by President Spalding for admission to the auxiliary team, and several players of exceptional promise are already under engagement. It should be understood that there is no distinct limitation fixed to this number of young men who will be afforded the opportunity of testing their capacity as ball-players. Any person with reasonable claims to consideration and trial in this regard will not be denied the privilege of showing what he can do in the various field positions or as a batsman and base runner. The strongest possible inducement is held out for active and athletic young men with some skill as ball-players to enter the competitive examination. If accepted the player is given an engagement as a member of the Chicago Club at a regular salary, and the higher his grade of efficiency the larger will be his compensation and the more certain his advancement to a place on the regular nine. Should the experiment result in developing a larger number of players than the Chicago Club has use for, there will be forty or fifty other professional clubs throughout the country next year which will be only too glad to engage players bearing Chicago's certificate of efficiency and success. Such players will be in brisk demand at lucrative salaries., quoting the Chicago American Sports |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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