Clipping:Chadwick proposes six strikes for an out
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| Date | Wednesday, November 10, 1886 |
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| Text | In regard to the rule governing the calling of balls and strikes, says Henry Chadwick, I want to see it amended so as to give the batsmen the same chance to hit the ball fairly that the pitcher has to put him out on “strikes.” The pitcher is allowed to deliver six unfair balls. I want to see the batsman allowed to strike at the same number of fair balls. That is, instead of three called strikes, as the rule now is, giving the batsman out, let it be six, as many as the pitcher is allowed in sending in unfair balls. I am confident that this rule will yield livelier batting, and eventually do away with “pitcher’s games,” thereby giving the fielders more work to do, especially the outfielders, and doubling the attraction of the game to the general class of its patrons. St. Louis Post-Dispatch November 10, 1886 Phenomenal Smith doesn't work out in Detroit Last spring the Newark Club could have secured $3,000 for Phenomenal Smith. They failed to take advantage of the opportunity, and all they got was $500, which Detroit paid for his services for the last two weeks of the season. Smith has shown himself to be very unreliable, and the Detroit management exhibited good judgment in not paying a large bonus on an uncertainty. The Sporting Life November 10, 1886 {See also TSL 861117 p. 1.] |
| Source | St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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