View source for Clipping:The balls and strikes rule unfair to the batter

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|Type of Date=Day
|Date=5/22/1875
|Title=the balls and strikes rule unfair to the batter
|Text=<p>The Hartfords have much to learn yet in...batting under the new rules;  which, by the way, bear unfairly on the striker, inasmuch as he is obliged to strike the first fair ball sent in, and also at three fair balls in succession, while the pitcher can pitch nine unfair balls before a batsman can take a base on called balls.  The rule ought to be the calling of every second ball, both for unfair balls and fair balls, thus making the rule equitable for pitcher and striker alike.  Now it is one-sided, and bears hard upon the batsman...</p>
|Source=New York Clipper
|Submitted by=Richard Hershberger
|Origin=Initial Hershberger Clippings
}}