Clipping:Favoring 'scientific' small ball
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| Date | Sunday, September 3, 1871 |
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| Text | The perfection of scientific batting is to earn first base by a hit which renders it impossible fo the infielders to catch the ball on the fly of to field it in time to put a player out at either of the three bases. There is not a muffin player who cannot hit a ball pitched to the bat for a home run. New York Sunday Mercury September 3, 1871 an attempt to distract the fielder The New York correspondent of the Albany Times, speaks of an old Haymaker player’s trick: “At the match on Monday, between the Mutuals and Forest Citys, of Rockford, a player of the latter was guilty of one of the lowest tricks conceivable. In the ninth inning two of the Rockfords were out and the Mutuals one ahead, when Anson sent up a high fly over first base. Start prepared to take it; when it was a few inches from his hand Fisher uttered a roar which would have done credit to a mad bull. Start, however, held the ball, and the crowd hooted the ruffian, who, unable to win a fame fairly, strove to do so by a contemptible trick. New York Sunday Mercury September 3, 1871 |
| Source | New York Sunday Mercury |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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