Clipping:A proposal to abolish extra innings
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| Date | Tuesday, December 4, 1877 |
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| Text | [proposals for the League meeting] 3. A change of the rule which allows a whole game to be decided in one inning. It seems to the writer, and has seemed so to well-known base-ball managers, that the system is an evil one which allows a tie game to go into the tenth or eleventh inning for decision. It is not a fair test of the Clubs' respective strength. When the ninth inning closes the weaker Club may have its strongest batters on deck, and vice versa with the stronger Club. Then the chances to win fall on the side of the weaker nine. Why not establish a usage that if after nine innings have been played the score be tied the game shall be called a draw, and another day be set to play off? Did any one ever hear of a horse-race being run out where there was a dead heat—run out by continuing the horses in their course down the track, say one hundred years, to see which would win? |
| Source | Cincinnati Enquirer |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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