Clipping:A call to abolish the underhand throw; questioning the curve ball
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| Date | Saturday, September 22, 1877 |
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| Text | ...there are many changes which ought to be made in the playing rules. … We refer to the restoration of straight-arm pitching and the abolishment of the under-hand throw. Of course such a radical change could not be effected immediately. The restoration of straight-arm pitching would throw out of use such curve-throwers as Devlin, Nolan, Bond and Larkin, and as these men are under contracts with club for their services next year, it would not be fair, even if it could be done, to abolish the underhand throw before 1879. but we contend that the only way to restore the old-time enthusiasm and revive flagging interest in the sport is to make this radical change. Heavy batting and large scores alone can pull up the declining interest in the National game. The League, at their meeting last year, recognizing this fact, tried as a remedy for the evil of small scores and weak batting the introduction of the live ball, the but intended effect was not attained thereby. About the only material difference made was to roll up the error scores and disable fielders. The system of underhand throwing has been gotten to that scientific point that base hits are much fewer now than runs were in 1870. catchers are mangled and the game most unmercifully marred. We therefore claim that the League at its meeting this fall should declare that the season of 1879 will begin with straight arm pitching instead of the underhand throwing now in vogue. The latter system is to a great degree a fraud upon the pubic. Pitchers talk about curving the ball this way and that way, when it is an open question whether there is any such thing in existence as a curved ball. |
| Source | Cincinnati Enquirer |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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