Clipping:Four balls for a walk

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Date Wednesday, November 28, 1888
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[reporting on the joint rules committee meeting 11/19/1888] Rule 48, Sec. 2 now reads: “Instantly after four balls have been called by the umpire.” This change was made on the basis of obliging the pitcher to be more accurate in his delivery, and that to accomplish this he would have to reduce his speed. Then, too, should the reduction of the number of called balls lead to more bases being taken on balls, more base-running would follow; besides which the fact of there being a runner on first base would divide the attention of the pitcher between the batsman and runner, thus having a tendency to aid the batting. The amendment is certainly in the line of equalizing the forces of the attack and defense...

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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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