Clipping:The argument for foul tips as strikes
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| Date | Wednesday, November 13, 1889 |
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| Text | [from the Baltimore correspondent] Mr. Barnie is one of the joint committee on playing rules, but does not anticipate any material change except to denominate a foul tip a strike. It is also understood that Mr. Spalding is in favor of abolishing the entire system of outs of fouls, but it is not thought such a radical change will be made. Many believe that even defining a foul tip as a strike will again go far towards throttling the still weak batting of the game, but it is to be supposed a certain amount of tinkering with the rules must be done to justify having a committee on playing rules. What is the use of a committee if they don't do something? It is argued that umpires officiate much of their time behind the pitcher, and that many foul tips already pass as strikes, owing to the inability of the umpire to hear the tip at that distant position, and that the umpires' errors in that respect causes much dissatisfaction among spectators and players. That is the principal excuse given for calling the tip a strike and weakening the batting, and it hardly seems justifiable. However, if the maggots say the tip must go, it must, and that settles that. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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