Clipping:Proposal to increase offense with a lively ball, smaller home plate

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Date	Wednesday, September 5, 1888
Text	[from Frank Brunell's column][quoting umpire Gaffney] My idea is to make the ball one-third livelier than it now is. If such a ball was used the fine stops now made by the infielders would never be made. Hard hit side balls would go safe, and long flies and line hits, now easily judged and caught, would, in a great many cases, get away and down. Try the lively ball, and if it wouldn't increase the batting sufficiently reduce the size of the plate so that the ball would be more within the range of the batsman's eye. The plate now measures 17½ inches across from corner to corner. Reduce it to 12 inches across and batting would increase a good deal.
Source	Sporting Life
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Submitted by	Richard Hershberger
Origin	Initial Hershberger Clippings

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