Clipping:The flat bat 2

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Date	Saturday, January 17, 1885
Text	The flat bat idea is not so much of an experiment as is generally supposed. The scheme has been tried and found to work well. It is not designed for the thoughtless sluggers–men who hit with their whole strength at every ball pitched them–but for the scientific batter who tries to place his hits. Farrar, of the Philadelphia Club, used a bat that was flattened on one side on the last Western trip of the team last season, and made twenty-six base hits in the sixteen games played, gaining a batting average for the trip of .419. He pained the bat carefully after doctoring it, and the trick was not discovered. The surface should not be made perfectly flat, as that would leave bothersome edges, and also hurtfully lessen the weight, but just enough should be taken off to remove the exact roundness–say one-quarter of an inch. St.
Source	St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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Submitted by	Richard Hershberger
Origin	Initial Hershberger Clippings

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