Clipping:A new sliding pad
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| Date | Wednesday, March 3, 1886 |
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| Text | Sam Morton has introduced a clever device which all ball players will doubtless welcome warmly. It is a sliding pad, which fits over the hip and thigh of a player so that he can do the slide act as often as he chooses without bruising and laming himself upon the hard runs. In these days, when men like Kelly, Williamson, Burns and Pfeffer make half their bases by steals, such a device will prove a boon to players, and the mere consciousness of having it strapped about them will render them all the more daring and agile. It is light and yielding, so that it does not impede a player's action in the slightest, yet is sufficiently thick to protect the player from contact with the ground. Kelly tried one on yesterday and is delighted with it. “Just what I have wanted for three years,” said he “and yet I never have been able to think up the scheme. I will show those shorts and second basemen some sliding now. Why, many a time I have been so sore and lame that I couldn't run just from striking the ground with my thigh in trying to catch the boys asleep.” Spalding Bros. Have the sale of the pad, and it is safe to say that every player who has any reputation as a base-runner will wear one this year. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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