Clipping:Mocking Chadwick 2

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Date	Monday, May 21, 1888
Text	[from a column by “Ferguson”] An exchange says it is not known who is the “father of the game,” but that Henry Chadwick is the man who first wrote up the rules. This, then, accounts for the general misery of these ill-conditioned paragraphs. It is natural enough. Chadwick knows nothing about play. His mind has been for years running on the matter of home runs and the desire to make them as the real reason why batters do not bat; and it is rank with another equally absurd idea, to wit, that of “scientific batting” or “placing the ball,” dropping in the exact convenient spot where fielders are astonished to find it, and therefore cannot field it.
Source	Boston Herald
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Submitted by	Richard Hershberger
Origin	Initial Hershberger Clippings

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