Clipping:Double umpire system and player discipline

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Date Saturday, October 11, 1890
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Another laudable innovation—the double-umpire system—proved a failure we regret to say, but not through any inherent fault of the system, which, under favorable conditions, we still believe to be the best possible method of satisfactorily conducting ball games. In the Players' League the conditions were not altogether favorable because, in the first place, the umpire were not well selected, of equal ability nor well paired; and, secondly, because the discipline in the ranks was lax, the means of enforcing discipline upon managers, captains, playing directors and other players, inadequate, and, finally, because the umpires, realizing the exceptional condition of affairs in the Players' League, had not the sand to rigidly exercise such authority as the rules conferred upon them, and were not properly backed up when they did occasionally venture to assert themselves. Under the circumstances, the double umpire system in the Players' League was undoubtedly a comparative failure and hardly warranted the great expense of maintaining it.

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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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