Clipping:Three balls used in one game; a semi-intentional walk
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| Date | Wednesday, September 6, 1882 |
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| Text | [Cincinnati vs. St. Louis 9/5/1882] The game was played with no less than three balls. When the Browns were at the bat in the eighth inning they knocked the cover off the ball and the home team called for a new one. Snyder, too experienced to be caught napping, pulled out his rules and showed that no new ball could be substituted for an old one, except at the close of an even inning, so the inning was ended, and when the eighth [sic] a new ball was put in play. ... In the ninth inning, with the score still 7 to 2, against the Browns, W. Gleason and McCaffrey hit safely, Comiskey followed suit, and the bags were all occupied when Walker took up his bat. Twice Oscar landed the ball over the right-field fence, and twice it sailed past each of the front line. The second stroke landed the sphere somewhere near the Fair grounds, and it was not recovered. Another new ball was produced.... [a run subsequently scored on an error] If Walker could land the ball on the far side of the fence the score would have been seven to six with no man out, and, the crowd knowing all this, watched the movements of the player with eagerness. White, [pitcher], whoever, would not let him hit the ball, and he was given first. |
| Source | Cincinnati Commercial Tribune |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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