Clipping:Stalling a game to give the pitcher rest

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Date	Monday, March 26, 1888
Text	Mike Kelly relates the following incident of the ends to which Anson will go to win a game of ball: We were playing against the New Yorks. It was in the last inning and the game was 5 to 5. McCormick was pitching and I was catching. McCormick had pitched in two or three games that week with a pretty sore arm. He was tired in the last inning and Anson was the first to notice it. The umpire called a good ball a strike and Anson objected. To his mind, he said it should have been a ball. He had a ten-minute argument, and getting near me gave the tip that I should hurt my finger. The next ball did that. I had to go in the dressing-room, and it was fully ten minutes before I could show up. In the meantime Fred Pfeffer had been hurt by a pitched ball in practicing, and as a result there was almost half an hour delay. McCormick braced up and felt pretty good again. He pitched a great inning and then we made one run in the next. We had won the game. If McCormick had not got the rest we would have been slaughtered.
Source	Cleveland Plain Dealer
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Submitted by	Richard Hershberger
Origin	Initial Hershberger Clippings

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