Clipping:The finances of exhibition games
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| Date | Sunday, January 27, 1878 |
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| Text | During the season of 1877 the Chicagos played forty-five games with the best class of non-League clubs on the grounds of the latter. The Chicago receipts from these games were $5,184.40, or an average of $115.20 per game. The expense account of the Club for the year shows the following items: Paid railroad fares …........ $2,977.74 Paid hotels......................... $1,673.74 Paid carriages.................... $ 214.61 Total traveling expenses... $4,866.09 This bill of expenses covered the absence of the Club for ninety-eight days, during which they played seventy-six games of ball. It therefore appears that the expenses made in playing each game away from home were $64.02. And here is the point made by the anti-League critics: they say: “On your own showing you get $115.20 by paying out $64.02; that's what we have always said: you are making $51.18 off each game with us: you are living off us.” Softly, sirs: gently a moment; the Chicago Club paid in salaries last season $179.06 for each game its team played. Add that to the expense of traveling, and you find it cost $243.08 to play each game outside of Chicago. But this doesn't show, nor attempt to show, the whole expenses of the club. Last year it paid out for ground rent, printing, advertising, and other expenses not noted above more than the whole cost of running many of the clubs which are grumbling about the League “living off them.” The fact is, without any word of explanation beyond what is shown by the figures, the Chicago Club last year sold for $115.20 what cost it $248.08, and repeated this forty-five times in the season, thus giving away and actual cost of $10,938.60 for a return of $5,184.40. |
| Source | Chicago Tribune |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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