Clipping:Games taking too long; working the count
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| Date | Wednesday, June 8, 1887 |
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| Text | [from Joe Pritchard's column] A complaint comes from all over the country--”The games are too long drawn out.” This is a fact, and the evil must be remedied. People have been educated to remain at a game from an hour and a half to two hours, and when the game is drawn out to two hours and fifteen minutes, and even two hours and a half, the public will call a halt by refusing to attend the games. … To remedy this evil of long games the number of balls and strikes will have to be changed. If not both then change one, make it three strikes and five balls and the pitcher and batsmen would be about on an equal footing. Under the present arrangement very few batters strike at the first two balls and a great many of the big hitters allow three balls to go over the plate before they will make an attempt to line it out. This waiting to get to first on balls not only draws the game out unnecessarily but it prevents just what all base ball men have been trying to bring out, and that is good hard hitting. If the rules are so changed that we will have three strikes and five balls, the games will be shorter and batting just about as heavy as it is at present. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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