Clipping:Chadwick on the substitute rule
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| Date | Wednesday, November 30, 1887 |
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| Text | [from Chadwick's column] The change suggested by the committee, involving the practical introduction of eleven men as a field team instead of nine as now, is one which, though somewhat radical as an innovation on the old rule, is, nevertheless, worthy of the test of a season's experience. I think that while it may have an objectionable feature or two connected with it, that its advantages will outweigh them. I am in favor of its trial, anyway. There is one thing about this rule of allowing two substitutes to take the place of any two players the captain of the nine in the field may choose to replace, without regard to the removed players being disabled by illness or injury, which will commend itself to the patrons of the game at large, and that is that it will materially aid in putting a stop to one-sided contests occasioned by the individual inability of one or other of the battery players to do their work up to their customary high mark. There are frequently times or periods in the progress of a game when either the pitcher or catcher fails in his work without his being either injured or taken sick; and in such cases the result generally is that a contest, which promised a close fight, is changed into a dull one-sided game. It is just here that the rule giving the privilege of putting in a new battery will work to the satisfaction of the crowd of spectators. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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