Clipping:Intimidating the umpire; time of game
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| Date | Sunday, July 13, 1884 |
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| Text | [Brooklyn vs. St. Louis 7/12/1884] [Patrick McGee, a substitute umpire] Nearly every time he rendered a decision the players of both nines would run up to him, gesticulate wildly before his face and kick most vigorously. In fact there was more kicking than ball playing done, which accounts for the fact that it required only two hours and thirty minutes to complete the game. Green, the short stop of the Brooklyn club, carried off the kicking honors, having kicked louder and longer than any other man on the field. The players “worked” the unfortunate umpire unmercifully, frequently getting him to call strikes on balls which did not come within two feet of the plate, or to call balls that were properly strikes bad balls. After the game the crowd jumped over into the field, and the private watchmen of the park thinking they were going to mob McGee surrounded him. The precaution was unnecessary, as the crowd were merely gratifying their morbid curiosity, and after scrutinizing the umpire closely from head to foot as they would a dime museum wonder departed in peace. (St. Louis) |
| Source | Missouri Republican |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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