Clipping:Players won't slide
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| Date | Wednesday, June 17, 1885 |
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| Text | Many hands are thrown out at the bases. In fact the Baltimores have become a “snap” for the practice of the poorest throwers. Almost any catcher can make a good base-throwing records against them. People are wondering at the cause of this, known that, with two or three exceptions, the team is composed of fleet runners. One great cause, perhaps, is the fact, which may not be universally know, that the members of the team were all reared in the lap of luxury and are too tender to bump the hard ground and slice off a few ounces of flesh for every base stolen. In other words, with an exception now and then, they will not slide for the bases. Of course, when a player does not do this he must begin to put on the brakes before he reaches the base, so as not to be carried over by his own momentum, and just at that moment, the most critical in the whole play, he is touched with the ball. It may be asserted that any player can learn to slide, and by practice become so skillful as not to injury himself. It is like learning to swing. The flesh naturally recoils from the first few attempts, but when it is acquired the candidate wonders why he didn't learn sooner. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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