Research

Scope and Content Note

This series consists of itemized information regarding Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital's staff baseball and basketball teams. Information includes: on the left side of the page, dates, teams played, scores, tickets sold, amount taken at gates; on the right side of the page the following expenses are noted: railroad tickets, travel expenses, equipment, equipment repair, and telegram costs. Players are frequently noted by name. During the summer of 1888, a baseball club dubbed "The Asylum Nine" was organized under the presidency of the Hospital's third assistant physician Dr. D. H. Arthur and the management of hospital supervisor W. E. Cout.