Clipping:The reason for the new pitching rules; the state of the Athletics

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Date Saturday, May 11, 1867
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The new rule for pitchers was introduced expressly to affect McBride, and others like him, who make B.B. merely a game of Pitching and Catching. In the Convention, the Athletics and all their friends voted against the innovation, because they thought it would injure them; but, as the law was passed over their heads, is it decent of them to refuse to recognize and obey it! Is not this perversity almost as bad as the questionable morality of cheating the Atlantics out of their share of the gate money last year. Why is it that more than two hundred gentlemen have withdrawn from the Athletics since last season? Is the old club to be destroyed?

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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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