Clipping:Baseball vs cricket bats and balls, and their effect on fielding
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| Date | Saturday, July 24, 1869 |
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| Text | The desideratum aimed at is a ball as suitable to the character of the bat used in base ball as the cricket ball is to the elastic, spring-handled, willow bat used in cricket. In cricket, the elasticity requisite to give life to the ball has wisely been divided between the bat and the ball. In our game, it is all in the ball; and the result is, that, while in cricket skillful batting is required to secure runs against equal skill in the field, in base ball “muffin” batsmen–provided they are heavy hitters, and an over-elastic ball is played with–can obtain runs against the most expert fielders. Of course, the effect is to give prominence to heavy batting, at the cost of the most attractive feature of the game, which is fine fielding. |
| Source | National Chronicle |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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