Clipping:Bud Fowler; his delivery; the disadvantage of the high delivery
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| Date | Saturday, July 12, 1879 |
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| Text | [Malden vs. Jersey City 7/2/1879] The games of the Maldens [of Malden, Mass.], and especially the fact that they had brought with them a colored pitcher, did not get full publicity, or the attendance would have been larger than it was. . Fowler, the colored member, opened the pitching, then Brosner took his place for two innings, and, as he was badly punished, Fowler resumed in the fourth inning. Fowler delivers illegally, his hand passing above his waist at almost every ball. Batsmen don’t mind this, however, as the higher the delivery the easier the ball to judge. Pitchers make a great mistake in the adoption of this waist-high delivery. They lose all the advantage of sending in a rising ball, pitched from within six to eight inches of the ground, as Creighton used to do. Fowler in this game only showed himself to be a swift, wild, curve pitcher. He has but little command of the ball, or showed but little in this game, and he apparently knows nothing of strategic effect. New York Clipper July 12, 1879 The Boston Herald says: “The attempt at calling foul-baulks by the umpire yesterday at Stoneham on Fowler, the pitcher of the Maldens, was “rather think,” inasmuch as Mr. Fowler has been in the baseball arena for six or seven years, played in National and other clubs, that point never having been raised.” We saw Fowler pitch at Jersey City, and then he delivered nearly every ball above the line of the waist, and, had the umpire done his duty, he would have called “foul-baulks” on him. Club-captains let this foul-baulk business pass because they know that the higher a ball is delivered the easier it is to judge. Every ball delivered above the line of the wiast is a “foul-baulk,” and the umpire has no option but to declare it such. New York Clipper July 19, 1879 |
| Source | New York Clipper |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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