Clipping:The theory of batting orders
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| Date | Wednesday, August 20, 1884 |
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| Text | The old plan of changing the order of batting every game is not now adopted by the best managed clubs. Experience has shown that better results follow where a regular order of striking is observed throughout the season. The first thing in settling upon the order of batting is to ascertain, by practical experience, which batsmen are best fitted to follow each other. Thus a poor runner should be invariably followed by a good hitter, and a sharp runner should precede a poor or uncertain hitter. Then, too, when a regular order is observed, batsmen know what they have to do, alike in batting and base running. Thus, if the first striker makes his base and he knows that the batsman who follows him is not likely to bat him round the bases, he is prepared to take greater risks in base running than would be necessary if the succeeding batsman is a sure hitter. Then, too, the man at the bat is largely guided in his efforts in batting by what he knows of the runner’s ability who preceded him to steal bases, etc. In fact a regular and sustained order of striking is the only way to promote team work in batting and base running, while the plan of changing the order, with a view of making it a species of reward, is a bad one in every way, it being neither an honor to be at the head of the list, nor any discredit to be the ninth man at the bat. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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