Clipping:A complaint baseball being just between the pitcher and catcher
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| Date | Saturday, May 1, 1875 |
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| Text | [from a letter to the editor by Paris M. Crane of Louisville] Being an ardent admirer of the game of baseball, I have tried to be present at all the games played here in which professional clubs participated, commencing by witnessing the game between the National Club of Washington, D.C. And Louisville, years ago, and ending with the Philadelphia vs. Eagle, last season; and I can truly say that in all the game played here during this period, in which professional clubs were engaged, their style of play was exactly the same, they neither doing their best nor their worst playing, If their object was to give an exhibition of their pitching and catching, it was a success, but in every other way a palpable failure. Four-fifths of the outs (by the local club) in these games were by strikes and fouls, which is too great a disproportion, giving no chance to display the chief beauty of the game, viz., the in and outfielding. Professional clubs or their managers seemed to forget that the spectators paid for admission, and desired to see the whole nine perform, and not merely two of their players. … A professional club visiting here should always commence with their best pitcher and catcher, and, after the spectators have been regaled with about four innings of strikes, outs, tips and fouls, they should send in their medium-paced pitcher. This would at least obviate the necessity of our boys striking out. In fact, I think they might hit some balls which would give the basemen and fielders an opportunity to get in the game and distinguish themselves. It would at least keep them from standing grinning at their pitcher and catcher, while they do all the playing. |
| Source | New York Clipper |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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