Clipping:Support for the new pitching delivery rule
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| Date | Wednesday, April 22, 1885 |
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| Text | It is understood that the new League pitching rule was designed to aid the batter and by making it impossible to repeat those tiresome “pitchers' games,” enhance the interest of spectators. Judging from what has been seen here [Baltimore] it will attain the desired object, provided it is not too great a tax on the endurance of the pitcher. The experience in this city has been that it produced a moderately good batting game with some brilliantly sharp fielding to counteract it. To be sure, the fielders cannot stand around and eat peanuts during the game, but that is just what the spectators desire, they want to observe a little life among them. They want to see eighteen men play instead of four. It would be a much better game to see ever man who went to the bat hit the ball than to see half or more of the, ignominiously strike out. When the League clubs play together, where the pitchers of both contesting clubs work under the same rules, the game should be better balanced. As it is, in the exhibition games, the League clubs have the worst of it, as the pitchers of the opposing teams pitch under the old rule, that is, at last, the Bostons do. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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