Clipping:Scoring an error on an intentional walk; early use of 'twirler'

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Date	Sunday, December 31, 1882
Text	The decision of the recent league meeting to score an error against the pitcher when a batsman is given a “base on balls,” while it may prevent carelessness on the part of the pitcher and help to some degree the batting feature of the contest, also affords an opportunity for injustice being done to the sphere twirler. It often occurs, especially where a notably weak batter follows a strong one, that a “base on balls” is the best piece of strategy of the game, and yet a pitcher must be credited with an error if he performs it. Then again the poor judgment of an umpire finds a victim not in that official, but in the pitcher. Verily, the lot of the latter is a hard one.
Source	Boston Herald
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Submitted by	Richard Hershberger
Origin	Initial Hershberger Clippings

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