Clipping:The pitcher moved back to fifty feet

From Protoball
Jump to navigation Jump to search
19C Clippings
Scroll.png


Add a Clipping
Date Saturday, December 18, 1880
Text

[reporting the NL meeting of 12/8/1880] ... substituting the words “fifty feet” in the place of “forty-five feet,” thereby increasing the pitcher’s distance from the bat five feet. The design of this amendment was to give the batsman a better chance to judge the ball as it comes from the pitcher’s hands; the increase of distance, too, must necessarily affect the speed of the ball. In regard to its effect on the curve-delivery, it will oblige the pitcher to aim differently in order to send the curved ball over the plate; moreover, it will greatly bother those pitchers who curve the ball without knowing it, as some do–that is, the class whose curve-delivery is considerably more of chance-work.

Source New York Clipper
Comment Edit with form to add a comment
Query Edit with form to add a query
Submitted by Richard Hershberger
Origin Initial Hershberger Clippings

Comments

<comments voting="Plus" />