Clipping:Cummings's pitching: twelve strike outs; sixty day rule does not apply outside Association
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| Date | Sunday, August 21, 1870 |
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| Text | [Forest City of Cleveland vs. Star of Brooklyn 8/20/1870] We have on previous occasions stated our opinion that Cummings was literally and figuratively the Star pitcher of the States, and our opinion was confirmed yesterday. Had the reputation oft he Forest City Club depended upon their game with the Stars yesterday, they would have been set down as rank duffers, twelve men out of twenty-seven being “struck out.” It certainly was most amusing to see batsman after batsman go up to the home plate and have three strikes called upon him. Had Cummings been properly supported in the field, the Forest City nine would have been Chicagoed eight innings out of nine, the fourth being the only inning in which his pitching was batted, and in that they earned three runs. The Clevelanders themselves were obliged to laugh at the ridiculous figure they cut at the bat. New York Dispatch August 21, 1870 [Forest City of Cleveland vs. Star of Brooklyn 8/20/1870] The Stars presented a new nine, with a new catcher... In view of the ambitious desire of their young pitcher to excel in speed, a new catcher became a necessity, as Jewell, though he has played finely in the position, was regarded by the nine as a bar to their success... By good fortune, Hicks, the late catcher of the Washington Nationals, became disengaged in July, and the Stars got him to join them, and as the Forest City club are not in the Association, they placed him behind in this game, in order to allow their pitcher full swing in his pace. ... The game was commenced at 4 P.M., with the Forest City nine at the bat, and at once a regular old fashioned display of swift pitching marked the contest, the manner in which the Blue Stockings retired from failures to hit the ball reminding us forcibly of the days of Creighton’s play in 1860, when the same style of thing used to be seen when he and Leggett faced each other in the Excelsior nine. ... Cummings went in entirely for speed and showed less judgment in his delivery than in any previous game of the season, he depending solely on his pace. New York Clipper August 27, 1870 |
| Source | New York Dispatch |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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