Clipping:Calling a strike on an intentional foul
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Date | Wednesday, February 9, 1887 |
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Text | [from a column by Ward defending the new rules] Any evident attempt to foul the ball is now a strike. Kelly introduced this trick two or three years ago, and since then has had many successful imitators. I always considered it a clever and legitimate exercise of skill. But it delayed the game, was positively dangerous to catchers, and, after the enactment of the rule giving a base hit for a base on balls, its abolition became a necessity. Otherwise, next season every one would have been trying it, and the games would have been prolonged to an interminable extent. |
Source | Sporting Life |
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Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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