Clipping:Chadwick on the exertion of a home run
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| Date | Saturday, August 9, 1890 |
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| Text | [from Chadwick's column] What is the cost of a home run in base ball? And what attractive feature does it add to the game, compared with the chances for fielding skill it deprives the fielder of? Those are pertinent question, in thse days of slugging for home runs with a lively ball to bat with. A home run is made at the cost, to the batsman, of a run of 120 yards at his topmost speed, which involves an expenditure of muscular power needing a half hour rest to recuperate from such a violent effort. A home run hit yields just one run when no runners are on the bases—and all the infielders have to do when it is made is to look on at the fun of the sprint running, while an outfielder trots after the ball. Now a single run made by a safe nit for one base, a good steal to second, and a couple of sacrifices, costs no violent expenditure of strength; gives the infielders ample facilities for an attractive display of skill, besides affording the spectators an opportunity to see some sharp base-running in stealing single bases. Just think of the monotony of a game marked by a series of home runs in each inning. I saw one game in the days of the lively elastic ball years ago in which runs were made by the hundred, and home runs by the dozen, and a more tiresome exhibition I never witnessed. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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