Clipping:Reduced hitting and the three strike rule

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Date	Wednesday, August 8, 1888
Text	[from Caylor's column] Games are becoming frequent where no base hits are made on either side. [N.B. There were four no-hitters that season.] We had several instances of it during the last few weeks. … [examples of low-hitting games follow] So it goes. If any batter gets an average of 300 per cent. this year it will be only such men as Anson, Reilly, Stovey, O'Neil, Connor. They'll be few, however, very few. [N.B. Batting was in fact down significantly from 1887.] The rules committee made a number of very yellow mistakes in its last conference. Mistakes of which only a practical exemplification could convince them. … They will have to go back to the four-strike rule or restore the high and low ball. If they do the latter they will restore the old system of contention over the dividing line of the high and low limit. What they should have done was to have let the rules along last year. The committee, however, had several new men on it and there was an eager desire among them to rip something. They ripped.
Source	Sporting Life
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Submitted by	Richard Hershberger
Origin	Initial Hershberger Clippings

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