Clipping:Batters adapting to the new pitching style
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| Date | Sunday, May 13, 1877 |
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| Text | Another point against him [Bradley] is that batter are more familiar with his style of pitching now than they were a year or two ago. The perpendicular style having almost entirely disappeared, professional batsmen went to work to get the hang of the underhand throw. They have done so in a large measure. It is no longer a dreaded bugaboo. Many of them, indeed, are hitting with as much freedom as they ever did the perpendicular style. ... and here arises the question whether this may not produce a tendency to return to the perpendicular, or Al. Spalding’s style of pitching. The new material of which base ball clubs are made up now are schooled only in the underhand throw. There must, it would seem, come a time when the perpendicular pitching will be the more effective of the two. It would, all things considered, be better for the game if the old order of things in this respect could be revived. One of the great objections to Bradley and all pitcher of his style is, that he wears out a catcher so soon. St., quoting the Chicago Times |
| Source | St. Louis Globe-Democrat |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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