Clipping:An experiment with three pitchers at three innings each
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| Date | Wednesday, April 10, 1889 |
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| Text | [from George Stackhouse's column] [Newark vs. Brooklyn 3/28/1889] The Brooklyn Club's plan of having three pitcher and three catchers in these early games does not seem to be producing the good results that was expected by the management. On a warm day this plan might be all right, but in cold weather it may prove more injurious than otherwise. For instance, Hughes and Clarke were the battery for the home team in the first three innings, and then put on their overcoats and sat on the players' bench and got chilled through, while Terry and Bushong took their places for three innings. Then the latter two retired to make room for Lovett and Visner. Hughes and Bushong were just getting warmed up to their work when it was time for them to quit. They went and sat on the players' bend in the cold, and if no ill results have followed it is not the fault of the weather. They could have pitched out the remaining six innings without any bad effect at all. Had they immediately returned to their dressing rooms after they had finished their part of the game, the liability to ill results would have been decreased. The plan of running so many batteries in one game is not only a nuisance to the spectators, a nuisance to the players, but bit confuses the spectators, who half the time do not know who is pitching and catching. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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