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| Date | Friday, April 8, 1881 |
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| Text | [Beacon vs. Boston 4/7/1881] Every one was anxious to see how Whitney, the new pitcher, who had already won an enviable reputation in California, would carry himself, and at the conclusion of the first game all were loud in his praises. He showed himself to be a wonderful manipulator of the sphere. He has a lightning rapidity to his delivery, coupled with a remarkable command of the ball. His curve pitching is about the finest ever seen on the Boston grounds. He raises his arm well up to his shoulder, but, considering that in the past the league has not pretended to live up to the rule as to what shall be termed a legally pitched ball, and has allowed anything and everything to be brought into the game and be termed pitching, this will probably not be objected to. Boston Herald April 8, 1881 [from the Providence correspondent] Some surprise has been manifested here (Providence), during the past five or six days, at the statement circulated broadcast throughout the West and published in nearly all of the base ball papers, to the effect that the Providence management had decided to “kick” because of Whitney's alleged irregular method of pitching. The story, to put it in the plainest language possible, Every one was anxious to see how Whitney, the new pitcher, who had already won an enviable reputation in California, would carry himself, and at the conclusion of the first game all were loud in his praises. He showed himself to be a wonderful manipulator of the sphere. He has a lightning rapidity to his delivery, coupled with a remarkable command of the ball. His curve pitching is about the finest ever seen on the Boston grounds. He raises his arm well up to his shoulder, but, considering that in the past the league has not pretended to live up to the rule as to what shall be termed a legally pitched ball, and has allowed anything and everything to be brought into the game and be termed pitching, this will probably not be objected to. Boston Herald April 8, 1881 is made up of whole cloth. Not the first whisper of an objection to Whitney's delivery has been heard. On the contrary, President Root informed the Herald correspondent that the item was false in every particular. He believed Whitney was a good pitcher, and would be a hard man to hit. Instead of objecting to Whitney, he thought that his presence between the “points” would make the games between Providence and Boston far more interesting than in the past, for the two nines would be more evenly matched, and the question of superiority, instead of being settled in the first two or three games, remain a fact to be brought out later on in the season. The rivalry between Providence and Boston has always been of the very pleasantest nature, and at this late day it will take considerably more than the frivolous scribblings of the would-be base ball authorities of the West to break up the harmonious feelings existing between the base ball associations of Providence and Boston. Boston Herald May 1, 1881 |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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