Clipping:A hint of coming called balls
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| Date | Wednesday, October 7, 1863 |
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| Text | [Mutual vs. Eckford 10/6/1863] As long as swift pitching remains in vogue just so long may we expect to see dull, tedious and uninteresting games, where two or three of the nine are worked to excess, while the remainder have not half enough to do, and where opportunities for a display of skill in fielding are so rare as is good humor in such contests. There is one thing certain, and that is, if this custom of pitching swift balls at the striker instead of for him is to be the rule, both the strikers and catchers will have to pad themselves up like cricketers do. At present the striker is just as much engaged in efforts to avoid the balls pitched at him to intimidate him as he is to select those he can hit well, and between the two he has hard work to hit at all. We sincerely trust that at the next Convention something will be done to remedy the growing evil, and the rule in reference to the delivery of the ball so worded as to fore pitchers to pitch a ball solely for the striker. If this be done, we shall once more see lively and well played games, and contests in which more dependence fo success is placed on the skill of the fielders in general than on the swift balls of the pitcher. |
| Source | Brooklyn Eagle |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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