Clipping:Expanding the substitute player rule
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| Date | Wednesday, November 20, 1889 |
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| Text | [reporting the Joint Rules Committee meeting 11/12/1889] Heretofore clubs were required to have one uniformed layer in readiness at all times during a game, but hereafter they will be called upon to have two such players, in accordance with the change made in Sec. 1 of Rule 28. This change was necessitated by the radical change of Sec. 2 of the same rule, which now permits a club to name two substitute players on the score card instead of one. Formerly the substitute was permitted to come into a game at the conclusion of an even innings only, but the new rule will permit the change to be made at any time. The Sporting Life November 20, 1889 [from Chadwick's column] Captain Anson, who was admitted to the conference, favored the extension of the rule so as to include any number of new players, but it was finally decided to limit the number to two. … Under the new rule the captain can replace any two players of his nine at any time during the progress of a game without waiting even for the close of the first or second half of an inning. … Thus the captain can try no less than three pitchers in a game, viz., the one named in the opening inning of the game and the two substitutes who can now be legally introduced. This amendment cannot but add greatly to the interest of the contest, as under the rule three pitchers can be tried in a game, each pitching three innings. The Sporting Life November 20, 1889 |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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