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|Title=umpire giving too many warnings, should call balls ...ng out to him to “get them down” or to “pitch lower,” should promptly call balls. In regard to strikes, more latitude is allowed, no strike being permitted

...times, and not a chance for a catch was missed at right field, as no high balls were sent there off the swift pitching. For a swift pitcher, delivering on

|Title=umpires not calling balls; strikes should be called only if batter wilfully refusing to strike ...ng out to him to “get them down” or to “pitch lower,” should promptly call balls. In regard to strikes, more latitude is allowed, no strike being permitted

|Title=scoring base on balls as an error ...L first adopted scoring rules in 1877.] It is section 7 of rule 70 of the playing rules which says: “An error should be given for each misplay which allows

...ertisement) JOHN C. WHITING, 87 FULTON STREET, N. Y., manufacturer of BASE BALLS and Wholesale and Retail Dealer in everything appertaining to BASE BALL and ...Greater New York City area playing the game, providers of playing grounds, playing manuals, and equipment sprang up.</p>

|Headline=Book Includes Hermit's Promise to Bring Children "Bats, Balls &c" ...n playing ball games approved of their play and promised 'to provide bats, balls, &amp;c' at his next visit."</p>

...hin two feet of the plate, or to call balls that were properly strikes bad balls. After the game the crowd jumped over into the field, and the private watc

|Headline=Egyptian Tomb Inscriptions Show Bats, Balls ...t=<p>Wall inscriptions in Egyptian royal tombs depict games using bats and balls.</p>

|Title=a player dishonorably working a base on balls? ...o obtain his base in that manner. There is an honorable and honest way of playing ball, and a dishonorable, tricky style. We must say that we prefer the for

|Headline=Baltimore school boys urged to stop playing bandy ...1, urges school boys to stop playing bandy in the streets, as their struck balls endanger passers by. Otherwise, the police will have to put a stop to it.</

...laying field, so that it was found necessary to make an agreement that all balls hit to the fence should be only two-base hits.</p>

|Title=playing for a release 2 ...ompetition is very likely to enhance their salaries. The only way to deal with determined obstinacy and willful misplaying is to fine, suspend or expel.</

|Headline=Teen Makes White Leather Balls for British Officers' Ball-Playing ...icked and gamed much.&nbsp; One amusement in which they indulged much, was playing at ball.&nbsp; A Ball-Alley was fitted up at the Court-House, where some of

...lders will be able to consolidate their forces so as to secure more ground-balls than they did before.</p>

|Title=wasting time looking for foul balls ...ime was consumed in waiting for the ball to be brought in than was used in playing the game...</p>

|Title=pitching unfair balls ...as an attractive feature of the game, than half-a-dozen catches from high balls hopped up nearly even the pitcher's head, or from tips from foul ball, both

...mparatively few score an error to the pitcher for giving a base on “called balls,” although the book of rules expressly provides that it shall be so score

|Headline=Irish Soldiers play ball with Rebel shells ...the Hibernian Guard actually stacked their arms and commenced playing ball with the six pounders that the enemy sent among them, tossing them about as cool

...introduced several new points of play at second base while in this city. With a man on first base he always played close up to the base line. If the bal

...al to a proposal to return to straight-arm pitching; reduce the number of balls for a walk ...of decreased latitude in the number of balls than in any foolish tinkering with the rules governing the style of delivery.</p>