Clipping:The veterans insist on playing under modified current rules
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Date | Sunday, October 18, 1874 |
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Text | [Knickerbocker veterans vs. picked nine of veterans 10/12/1874] It had been proposed to lay the game under the old rules, but the old duffers wouldn’t hear of such a thing. They wanted the improved game or none at all. Davis was indignant at the idea of playing under the boys’ rule of the bound-catch. “Give us the professional rules and we’ll show you how to play ball.” Of course, the umpire had to obey, and the game was played under the present rules, except that no balls or wides were called, as the old-fashioned pitch marked the delivery of the ball on both sides, and had “wides” been called half the nine would have gone to their bases on them in each inning, anything like accuracy of delivery being impossible under the rule of a square pitch unless the pace be slow. |
Source | New York Sunday Mercury |
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Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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