Clipping:William McLean running a gymnasium
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| Date | Sunday, January 28, 1872 |
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| Text | All the up-town fraternity make Billy McLean’s, No. 929 Girard avenue, their headquarters. Billy has recently fitted up a gymnasium, where most of the prominent ball-tossers are exercising for the coming season. Philadelphia Sunday Mercury January 28, 1872 Billy McLean has opened a gymnasium at his hotel, No. 929 Girard avenue, and all the “ball-tossers” of that section of the city are to be found practising there and getting themselves in trim for the coming season. Billy intends enlarging his hotel shortly and introducing several new features. Philadelphia Sunday Mercury February 18, 1872 the case for legal underhand throwing In regard to section 5, which is not altered [in draft rules by Harry Wright], it is questionable whether it would not be best to limit the prohibitions of throwing to over-hand throwing, leaving it optional with the ball “tosser,” “pitcher” or “thrower,” as the case may be, to send the ball in as he likes, either by a square pitch, like that of Martin, or by a well-disguised under-hand throw, such as that indulged in by nearly every swift so-called pitcher, from Creighton down to the professional experts of 1871. The only objection to jerked or underhand throws, in the delivery of the ball, is in the ability of the catcher to hold them; for the difficulty of hitting, there is no more than in hitting a swiftly overthrown ball, provided it is thrown straight to the bat and where the striker wants it. This prohibiting throwing and jerking of the ball by rule, while allowing it in actual play, is a farce. Either keep the delivery to a legitimate pitcher–or swift tossing of the ball–or let the pitcher send it in as he pleases, provided he does not throw it over-hand. New York Clipper February 3, 1872 |
| Source | Philadelphia Sunday Mercury |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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