Clipping:Calling balls
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| Date | Saturday, March 25, 1865 |
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| Text | In on pitchers, the rule to be observed this season by leading umpires will be as follows: When the game commences, the umpire, after making such allowance for accidental unfair delivery as the circumstances will justify, will without appeal call “ball to the bat,” after which notice should the pitcher fail “repeatedly”, viz., twice or three times to deliver a fair ball, then the umpire will call “one ball;” and if the pitcher persists in such action, that is, delivers one or two unfair balls directly after such warning and calling of one ball, two and three balls are to be called, and the player given his base. Less latitude will be allowed in this matter than was permitted last season, and the practice of taking the opinion of the two nines or their captains as to the degree of latitude to be observed in making allowance for unfair balls is to be entirely done away with, as a custom alike adverse to the interests of the game and proper observance of the rules required by the National Association. There is but one interpretation to be placed upon the rules of the game, and that one is the definition authorized by the committee of rules and regulations; and all who heard the report of the chairman of the committee at the last conventional, are well aware of the fact that they recognized no such power in the hands of the umpire as that usurped last season, by which pitchers were allowed a latitude for unfair fielding [sic] which the rules really prohibited. In fact, the rule this season will be fair pitching, for experience has shown that style of delivery to be alike the most conducive to interesting games to the spectators, and to enjoyable contests to the players. Fair pitching with good fielders to attend to the work that results from it, is the best policy for all clubs to pursue. |
| Source | New York Clipper |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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