Clipping:Medium vs. swift pitching

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Date	Sunday, July 1, 1866
Text	This match afforded a striking illustration of the superiority of medium paced pitching, with judgment, and command of the ball in delivery, over merely swift pitching, with balls sent in anyhow so as they went in swift. In the Star game, Sullivan sent in the balls alternately fast and slow, pitching carefully, slowly, and with considerable judgment, delivering according to his batsman; and the result was that the Athletics found it no easy task to punish him. In the Empire game, Ward, on the contrary, pitched as swiftly as he could and without command of the ball, and those balls out of reach of the bat were passed by the catcher, it being impossible to dispose of them, and those near the batsman were hit away without difficulty–swift pitching just suiting the Athletics. Afterward, Ward moderated his pace somewhat, and pitching steadier, caused an improvement the play, the Athletics not scoring as many runs in the next six innings as they had in the first two.
Source	New York Sunday Mercury
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Submitted by	Richard Hershberger
Origin	Initial Hershberger Clippings

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