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|Type of Date=Day
|Type of Date=Day
|Date=8/26/1865
|Date=7/31/1869
|Title=umpire not calling balls and strikes
|Title=Umpire not calling balls and strikes
|Text=<p>[Mutual vs. Eckford 8/25/1865One word now as to Umpires.  If a man accepts the position it should be with a full determination to discharge the duty fearlessly, faithfully and according to rule.  The 6th and 39th rules declare that if a pitcher repeatedly fail to deliver fair balls, &c., the Umpire shall—mark this reading—shall call one ball, two balls, and if persisted in three balls, when every player occupying a base at the time shall be entitled to one base.  Expediency, policy and leniency should not enter at all.  The Umpire mus be bound by these rules.  And so with the striker, if he persists in refusing to strike at good balls, strikes must be called.  In one instance yesterday, Zettlein pitched 20 balls before the batsman struck at it, though he had repeated good balls over the plateIf rules are worth making, they are worth observing, and if they are to be violated at pleasure, will or caprice, then the sooner the rules are generally abandoned, the better.  So common has this error become that first class clubs now object to some umpires, because they are too strict.  It is a real pleasure to witness a game, where every rule is lived up to.  Yesterday's game need not have occupied over one hour and a half if Forsyth had only bee strict in enforcing the rule.  Instead however of this, he never called one ball all through the game.</p>
|Text=<p>[Maryland vs. Atlantic 7/30/1869Its [the game's] tediousness was much increased by the laxity of the umpire [Bass of the Powhattan Club], who is a fine player, but not at all competent to discharge the duties of an umpireHe did not call a single ball and but one strike during the whole game.</p>
|Source=Brooklyn Eagle
|Source=New York Daily Tribune
|Submitted by=Richard Hershberger
|Submitted by=Richard Hershberger
|Origin=Initial Hershberger Clippings
|Origin=Initial Hershberger Clippings
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Date Saturday, July 31, 1869
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[Maryland vs. Atlantic 7/30/1869] Its [the game's] tediousness was much increased by the laxity of the umpire [Bass of the Powhattan Club], who is a fine player, but not at all competent to discharge the duties of an umpire. He did not call a single ball and but one strike during the whole game.

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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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