Clipping:A proposal to abolish the high and low strike zones 2
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Date | Wednesday, October 1, 1884 |
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Text | [from a letter from “W. C. McC.” to Von der Ahe on how to improve umpiring] The answer is, “To simply the umpire’s work.” Yes: but how? 1. By allowing the batsman to call for either a high or low ball, but let any ball pitched between the head and the knee, over the plate, be considered a fair ball; and then, to counterbalance this, let the batsman take his base on five or six balls not properly pitched, for it is in this discrimination of high and low balls that our umpires have been most puzzled and have failed to give satisfaction. St. |
Source | St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
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Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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