Clipping:Defining the legitimate reach of the batsman; high and low strike zones
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| Date | Sunday, March 27, 1870 |
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| Text | [from Answers to Correspondents] [answering questions about umpiring under the new rules] ...it is advisable, when a man takes his stand at the bat, to ask him what height he is in the habit of batting the ball, so as to enable you to judge what the legitimate reach of his batting is. If we were to act as umpire we should first ask the batsman before he struck at a ball whether he was in the habit of hitting at the ball high or low; and if he answered, “I want a low ball,” we should ask him if that was the ball he was in the regular habit of hitting; and if he answered “Yes,” we should consider his legitimate reach as one lower than that of a batsman who struck at a shoulder-ball. But these questions would be only for our own information, so that we might decide fairly in regard to the question of the legitimate reach, and not because the rules required any such question, for they do not. |
| Source | New York Sunday Mercury |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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