Clipping:Four balls for a walk; proposal to move the pitcher back; various measures to increase batting
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Date | Wednesday, November 21, 1888 |
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Text | [reporting on the meeting of the Joint Rules Committee 11/20] The first matter that engaged its attention was the problem of devising a change in the rules that would increase the batting. Many suggestions were made. One was to put back the pitcher's box five feet; another to give the batsman six strikes; another to widen the fair ground; another a restoration of the high and low ball. The committee discussed the suggestions exhaustively, and finally decided to let matters stand just as they were last season, except to hold the pitcher down to four balls. Three strikes and four balls will, then, be the rule for next season. Mr. Byrne defeated the proposition to put the pitcher's box back five feet by showing that it would put the pitcher on a line with first base and thus engage him to so thoroughly control it that a runner would have no chance to steal to second. |
Source | Chicago Tribune |
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Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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