Clipping:Chadwick still favors small ball
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| Date | Saturday, July 19, 1890 |
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| Text | [from Chadwick's column] Home-run batting is the result of the least skillful effort a batsman is called upon to make in his batting career. Take a muscular farm hand with “a good eye” and pitch him a ball within fair reach and he will slug it for a home run every time, but let him try to place a ball for a single hit or even to “bunt” it skilfully and he is nowhere. If a home run hit is the perfection of batting skill—as one might suppose it to be from the yells of applause such hits give rise to from the bleachers—then a series of home runs would make a perfect game. But what kind of a game would that be fore the admirers of skillful, strategic play at the bat, such as safe taps of the ball to short outfield, pretty “bunts,” yielding an earned base and well-placed single hits sure to forward runners to to yield sacrifice hits sending runners home. Deliver me from the home run slugging batting games of the Players' League lively ball, please. I prefer single figure contests in which sharp fielding abounds all the time. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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