Clipping:Right handed pitcher versus left handed batter; intentional base on balls
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| Date | Wednesday, February 6, 1884 |
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| Text | White is the opposite of McGinnis. While the latter is never so effective as when pitching against a left-handed batsman, White [who pitched right-handed] fails when facing such an opponent. White understands his weakness in this particular, and we have often seen him give the left-handed batsman a base rather than let him hit the ball where a safe stroke would bring in a run. The Sporting Life February 6, 1884 Cincinnati UA/AA machinations [from a not terribly factually accurate letter signed C.S.S.] ...they waited till the annual meeting [of the AA] in this city [Cincinnati] on the twelfth of last December. That day several members of the board of directors were invited to meet the combination [of Justus Thorner, John R. McLean, and George Gerke] secretly in a back room at Heisler's saloon, across from the Enquirer office, although they did not know the purport of the invitation. Here McLean and Thorner made their plea and asked to be put into possession of the Cincinnati Club. The former asserted that the Cincinnati Club had made application to the League for membership and that the application was then on file. This he said he knew to be true, though in reality he knew it was a lie; that he uttered this falsehood every member who was present at that meeting will testify; that it was false can be proven by Secretary Nick Young's certificate that no such application was ever received. All this is not an idle tale, but can be verified by members of the board of directors who were present at that meeting. The upshot of it all was that they asked to be heard. President McKnight manfully told them that if they had any plea to make they must come to the Grand Hotel that evening and make it to the board while in session, and not try to influence members sitting in the board at such a secret meeting. That evening Thorner did apply to the board at the Grand Hotel, with those members sitting in the board who had not bee invited to the saloon meeting. The board admitted Thorner and at the same time sent for Mr. Kramer, of the Cincinnati Club. The consequence was that Thorner was soon routed. He admitted the plotting against the club, and all he could do was to threaten that if he and McLean were not reognized they would put a Union Association club into Cincinnati. The board unanimously and politely dismissed him and his plea. The next week he went to the Philadelphia Union Association meeting, taking with him, as his agent, Frank B. Wright, who was defeated as a candidate for the American Association secretaryship, and for whose election the Cincinnati Club worked hard, as letters to the Brooklyn, Washington, Athletic and other clubs on his behalf will show. That is the history of the Union Club, of Cincinnati, and of the Enquirer's venom against the old Cincinnati Club. Will any reader of The Sporting Life think that those “avengers” are wrongfully treated. The Sporting Life February 6, 1884 |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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