Clipping:The effect of the four ball base on balls
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| Date | Wednesday, June 12, 1889 |
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| Text | [from Chadwick's column] The four-ball rule has transformed the successful, swift pitchers of 1888 into decided failures in the box in 1889, while the strategic class of headwork pitchers have become strikingly prominent from their effectiveness. Look at Clarkson and Radbourn, for instance, of the Boston team, the latter especially, and contrast their box work under the new rules with that of Krock, of Chicago, who made such a hit in 1888, not to mention others of the class of pitchers who have hitherto depended on mere speed alone for their success. To strike out eight or ten players a game last season was an ordinary result with some of the “lightning twirlers” of 1888, while this season the strike-out records are remarkably small in comparison. All this is to the advantage of scientific work in the box, and to team work at the bat, both of which develop the beauties of the game to the point approaching perfection... |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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