Clipping:What determines the length of a game

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Date Sunday, August 21, 1859
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The duration of a game depends equally upon the pitching, batting, and fielding. If the balls pitched are such as the batter will not refuse, the play is, of course, quicker and more lively; and if the balls struck should partake, generally, of a lofty character, they will be likely to be caught, and thus help to hurry a conclusion; but if fifty or sixty balls are pitched on each side to an inning (as we have frequently seen done), and the batting is of a style known as “long grounders,” the game must necessarily be a long one...

Source New York Sunday Mercury
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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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