View source for Clipping:Arguing balls and strikes

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|Type of Date=Day
|Date=6/14/1868
|Title=arguing balls and strikes
|Text=<p>[Athletic vs. Cincinnati 6/6/1868] Dick [McBride] never pitched better.  He was not swift, but he did deliver fair balls, and just where they were called for; but the Cincinnati players would not hit at them, or at least Gould, Grant and King did not get the balls that suited them.  They said so, and the Umpire called balls.  Dick felt very sore over this, and complained to Yours, Truly, of the injustice of the thing.  Grant had two bases given him on as fair balls as ever came from a pitcher’s hand.  Fisler, who, at first, could see the balls, declared that he had never seen fairer balls go over the plate than those that the above parties permitted to pass them, and on which strikes ought to have been called.  Charley Sweezy [the umpire] apologized afterwards; offered inexperience and the awkwardness of his position as an apology.</p>
|Source=Philadelphia Sunday Mercury
|Submitted by=Richard Hershberger
|Origin=Initial Hershberger Clippings
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