Clipping:Young instructs close calls should go to the home team

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Date Friday, June 21, 1889
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In extenuation of his wretched work as an umpire Barnum declares that, under President Young's instructions, all close decisions should be given to the home club. Judging from the gentleman's umpiring, he must have mistaken the word “decisions” in Mr. Young's instructions for the word “games.

Source Chicago Tribune
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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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