View source for Clipping:A prophetic statement on called strikes

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|Type of Date=Day
|Date=1858/04/17
|Title=a prophetic statement on called strikes
|Text=<p class="p1">[regarding the new rule allowing the umpire to call strikes] This rule, although, doubtless, very necessary, is yet calculated to make some troubles, and excite dispute; what one umpire may deem to be &ldquo;good balls,&rdquo; another may only consider &ldquo;from fair to middling,&rdquo; and their decisions be continually excepted to.</p>
|Source=Porter's Spirit of the Times
|Submitted by=Richard Hershberger
|Origin=Initial Hershberger Clippings
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