Clipping:Changes to the rules on balls and strikes
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Date | Sunday, January 23, 1870 |
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Text | The heavy-hitting class of batsmen are hereby duly notified that they will henceforth be no longer allowed to pick and choose as to what kind of balls they will have pitched to them. The new rules do away with the calling of balls knee-high, waist-high, or low balls. So long as a ball is pitched over the home-base and within the legitimate reach of the bat, that is all the batsman can require. The new regulation will relieve the umpires from much of the annoyance of their position. No warning is now necessary, and batsmen who do not strike at the first good balls they get will be put out on called strikes. This will force them to depend more upon skillful batting for success and less upon heavy hitting. |
Source | New York Sunday Mercury |
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Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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