The Camden Merritt, New Jersey’s Premier Nineteenth-Century Baseball Team
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With the emergence of baseball as America’s national sporting pastime, Camden civic and business leaders decided in 1881 to organize a professional team. This article examines brief but spectacular history Albert Merritt Base Ball Club, one best minor league teams nineteenth century. Examined are social economic reasons for organizing team, unique founding club, construction playing facility, team finances including player salaries. The 1883 Merritt, which advanced every major leagues, was juggernaut, dominating inaugural season Inter-State Association, two officially organized leagues. But despite success on field with 27-8 (.771) record, suddenly disbanded July 21. case study promise perils community enterprise culminates discussion club’s demise because internal financial problems inability compete across Delaware River Philadelphia.
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عنوان ژورنال: New Jersey studies
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['2374-0647']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14713/njs.v9i2.326