Clipping:Teamwork in fielding
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| Date | Wednesday, September 15, 1880 |
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| Text | [Chicago vs. Cincinnati 9/14/1880] [The Chicagos'] field work and show of discipline was the finest exhibited by any team which has visited Cincinnati this year. … Every field knows just what he will do with the ball if he gets it, and there is no show of demoralization. They don't stand rooted to the same spot twenty feet apart as though placed there on the penalty of death if they move. But when Jim White goes to bat Williamson and Burns concentrate over toward third, while Gore moves over to left center. When Clapp comes to bat Williamson takes' usual position, Burns moves down near second, and Quest moves up toward Anson, while Gore plays over in right center. We believe the Cincinnati players have not been seen out of their “hole in the ground” this year, no matter whether the batter hits to left or right field. The masterly hand of discipline, so clearly visible in the Chicagos' play, is entirely absent in the Cincinnatis' play. The contrast is most marked. When Anson got a foul fly yesterday Corcoran was stooping under him ready to catch the ball if his captain should by chance have let it drop. We have taken occasion to deliver this criticism after a victory, on Harry Wright's theory that it is such a time when criticism will do the most good. |
| Source | Cincinnati Enquirer |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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