Clipping:Illegal high deliveries
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| Date | Wednesday, January 2, 1884 |
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| Text | [from an article by Jimmy Williams] The writer does not remembers seeing but three pitchers in the American Association last season, and he saw all of them, who did not deliver some balls in an illegal manner with the hand passing above the shoulder. The three exceptions were White and McCormick of Cincinnati and Bradley of the Athletics. Mullane, Emslie, Hecker, Mountain, Hagie and Keefe were especially high handed at times. St. Louis Post-Dispatch January 2, 1884 arguments about pitchers’ deliveries [from an article by Jimmy Williams] Every person who has been an attendant at games of base-ball for a number of years knows that there is no one point in the game so sure to create a wrangle as for the umpire to attempt to interfere with the pitcher’s delivery. The writer never knew it to fail. It was this perhaps as much as anything else that encouraged and allowed the pitchers to transgress the rules with impunity. The reasons for it are obvious. If a pitcher is to be handicapped by a decision of the umpire, it thus may interfere seriously with the result of the game. The pitcher himself and his team will assert in the most positive manner that the umpire is wrong and is attempting to rob them of the game. If the decision is given against the home club, the audience will become excited and hoot and hiss the umpire, and the local papers will blast the umpire and the visiting club in unmeasured terms. The consequence will be a falling off in the attendance and a decrease in the interest felt in the games. If there is any one thing that is disgusting to an audience it is continual wrangling between the umpire and players over technical points. The audience come to see a game of ball played on its merits, and in almost every instance want to see the best club win. They don’t want the umpire to give the game to any body. They don’t care how the pitcher delivers the ball so long as the batsmen hit it occasionally. St. Louis Post-Dispatch January 2, 1884 |
| Source | St. Louis Post-Dispatch |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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