Clipping:The effect of the new delivery rules
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| Date | Wednesday, February 2, 1887 |
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| Text | [from Chadwick’s column] The effect of the new pitching rule is undoubtedly to reduce wild, swift pitching, and to drive pitchers into learning to attain a better command of the ball, inasmuch as it deprives them of the privilege of taking two steps in delivery, in doing which they gained the power to give the ball an additional impetus, of course at the cost of accuracy of aim in sending it in. This reduction of speed is largely offset by the removal of the privilege involved in the “high” and “low” balls the batsman was last year allowed to call for. A decided advantage is given the pither for the employment of strategic skill in the latitude of delivery now allowed him. That the new rule will disconcert the class of pitchers who were last season accustomed to do the jumping act in delivery there is no doubt; but the absence of this jumping busi9ness is a gain to the game. When the rules are framed to encourage a wild, swift delivery of the ball to the bat at the cost of encouragement for the employment of strategic skill in pitching, the game is set back. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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