Clipping:Early designated hitter suggestion
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
 |
| Add a Clipping |
| Date | Wednesday, August 8, 1888 |
|---|---|
| Text | [from Chadwick's column] A well-known and noted player, residing in Pittsburg, recently sent me a letter in which he makes the following suggestion. He says:--”I should like to see a rule embodied in the national code which would admit of the captain of a team having the privilege of allowing his pitcher to go to the bat or not when his turn came.” He very pointedly says, in advocating this new rule, that “pitchers, as a rule, are rather weak batters, and, besides this, when they come out of the box on a hot day at the close of a lively inning they are likely to be pretty well fatigued, and are then in no condition to go to the bat or to run bases. Then, too, in case he does go to the bat after a long inning, and happens to get his base on balls or to make a hit, and in consequence has to run bases, he comes in from the double fatigue in no trim to do justice to himself in the box in the next inning.” This point is well worthy of consideration by the conference committee. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
| Tags | |
| Warning | |
| Comment | Edit with form to add a comment |
| Query | Edit with form to add a query |
| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
Comments
<comments voting="Plus" />