Clipping:Wild pitching
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| Date | Thursday, October 9, 1862 |
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| Text | [Union of Morrisania vs. Eckford 10/7/1862] The game, taken throughout, was rather an interesting contest, and but for the tiresome pitching on the Union side, the match would have been played in much less time. Hannigan is pre-eminently master of the style of pitching he has adopted. But this style is by no means popular; on the contrary the cry against it is almost universal. Strictly speaking it is a pitch, but conscientiously it is not. Nothing can be gained by it. In the end it will injure ball playing more than is thought. It is not only bothersome to the striker, who is kept waiting for a ball, but delays the game, and deadens all the interest manifested therein. This new style of pitching is daily gaining ground, and the only reason for which we can assign is that every player, if he can throw a ball, is capable of mastering it. For this reason—that of checking its progress of this faulty style of pitching—has we thus criticised Hannigan's play, and our ball readers will doubtless concur in the same opinion. What a vast difference there is between Hannigan's pitching and that of Creighton, and Sprague? Had we space we would draw the comparison. In the match on Tuesday, in the third inning, Hannigan pitched 60 balls, 25 of which were over the striker's head; 13 medium height; 12 low. In the fifth inning 26 balls were pi5tched; 9 were high; 5 low, 3 medium, 9 struck at. To conclude, the objections to Hannigan's pitching, on the new style, are the following: First—Accuracy is sacrificed to swiftness. Second—It annoys the striker by giving him unfair balls, and thereby much prolongs the game. Third—It is a clearly palpable violation of the rules, and unless stopped, it will ultimately ruin the game. |
| Source | Brooklyn Eagle |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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