Clipping:Pre-modern reminiscences from Canada
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| Date | Saturday, January 22, 1881 |
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| Text | An old Canadian ball-tosser, writing from St. Mary's Ontario, on the 10th inst., thus discourses on what regards as advisable improvements in the rules of the game: “I have played baseball nearly forty years, and have been a reader of The Clipper since its first issue. I heartily endorse and approve your efforts to improve the game, although 'the machine' seems to be against you. When I first played we threw the ball, standing twenty yards from the home-base. When the girls' style of tossing or pitching was introduced we went up five yards nearer. Now that we are throwing again let us go back to the original distance and lay aside the present mockery of pretended pitching. It will favor the catcher and bat and improve the whole game. The restriction on running bases on fly-catches should be taken off. The batsman would be out, of course, but let the other base-runners go as they please on every fair hit. I can see no reason why that kind of sacrifice-hit should be barred, and it is more taking and gets the measure of the pitcher better than putting the ball down towards fist base... |
| Source | New York Clipper |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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