Clipping:Benefits of mixing baseball and cricket
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| Date | Sunday, November 1, 1863 |
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| Text | BASE-BALL PLAYERS VS. CRICKETERS.–We have long advocated the fraternization of cricketers and base-ball players in playing matches with each other at their respective games, but hitherto we have had little success in bringing them together. It is a fact, as plane as day itself, that both base-ball players and cricketers can improve their play, both at the bat and in fielding, by practicing each other’s games. In batting, at base-ball, the cricketer learns a free use of his shoulders–for to succeed at the bat, in base-ball, he must hit freely from the shoulders; but in cricket, the first lessons in batting teach him to defend his stumps as the most important thing to do; and this tends to rather cramp his movements in hitting rather than otherwise. Whereas, to the base-ball player, the practice of learning to defend the wicket–he having become proficient in his own game in using his bat freely in hitting–teaches him to judge the ball with an accuracy that few ever acquire in hitting at base-ball. In fielding, too, we never saw a base-ball player who had practiced cricket for any length of time that did not improve his fielding thereby; and all cricketers acknowledge that base-ball is the best school for fielding that we have. For these reasons, if no other, we should like to see cricketers and base-ball players fraternize together in just the friendly and enjoyable manner in which the New York Cricket Club and the Atlantic Base-Ball Club did on Monday last, in the game that was played at the Atlantic grounds, at Bedford. |
| Source | New York Sunday Mercury |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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