Sunday Baseball
14%Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 10, 1912
FromReview and Herald, Vol. 89, No. 41.
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“We are sorry for Pensacola. We are ashamed of Pensacola. Pensacola’s example is a blight to all the surrounding country; for she fears not God nor regards man in playing Sunday baseball. Some ‘wide-open’ politicians got it by deception, and now they hold on to it by devilish defiance of decency.
“Florida has a State law against baseball, but on a rider to a new charter bill, the council was granted the privilege to regulate the playing of baseball. Of course the word Sunday did not appear in the rider, but the fight was made and won on that conscienceless deception, and, saddest of all, we are told that both of the daily papers in Pensacola fought for the enthronement of this degrading devilment.”
“And now, what is the result? — It is the same which always comes to a man or a community when the laws of God and the moral and spiritual needs of man are trampled in the mud and mire for the sake of money — at the price of shame.”
“Clean baseball is magnificent sport; but when it is fostered in an atmosphere of gambling and Sabbath desecration, it not only brings the game into disrepute, but it becomes a blistering blight to countless thousands.”