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| Date | Sunday, July 28, 1889 |
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| Text | [St. Louis vs. Baltimore 7/27/1889] Baltimore and St. Louis played two games this afternoon and broke even. The home club won the first by a score of 4 to 2 and the visitors the second by a score of 3 to 1. Both were pitchers' games, neither side being able to do any work with the stick. Owing to the rain in the morning the attendance was only fair, about 5,253 people passing the turnstile. Had the weather not been threatening the grounds would have been packed. St. Louis Republic July 28, 1889 [from Chadwick's column] On reading this circular I sent a note to President Young, as follows: “Did you see Wikoff's latest circular? He decides that a complete inning is an even inning for each side. I contend that a complete inning is accomplished when the side first at the bat is put out and the other side goes in to complete their inning. It seems to me that Wikoff is wrong in his interpretation. How say you?” Mr. Young's reply was: “I take your view of it.” I took the document to Mr. Byrne, and I had a full discussion with him on the subject. Mr. Byrne was one of the workers of the joint committee, and he is thoroughly versed on the question of what the committee's intentions were in amending the rule, and it was to get at their intentions as regards this particular rule that I consulted him. He said the Walter Spalding was the urgent advocate of the rule, and it was his and Spalding's plain understanding that the words “completed innings” meant the innings played by each side constituting the first and second half of each of the nine innings which constitutes a game. This being so, of course that settled it, for it is what the committee intended a rule should mean, and not any special interpretation placed upon it through incorrect wording, which should govern each rule's interpretation. The Sporting Life July 31, 1889 |
| Source | St. Louis Republic |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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