Clipping:Balls still too lively; cheap knock offs
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| Date | Sunday, June 18, 1871 |
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| Text | Considerable complaint has been made by some of our best fielding nines in regard to the difficulty of obtaining dead balls of regulation size and weight. Unless specially made to order, the legal one ounce of rubber, admits of altogether too much elasticity in the ball for fielding purposes. Among the several manufacturers of base ball, the best made balls, and, especially, the deadest, are those made to order, by John Van Horn, the oldest and most experienced ball-maker in the country. It has been established by experience that the more skillful a nine is in wielding the bat as in fielding the ball, the more such a nine need a dead ball. Any nine of heavy hitters can sent a lively ball to the field safely for base hits; but it wants keen sight, good judgment, and batting skill of the first order to hit a dead ball safely, and hence it should be the policy of the best professional nines to use the deadest ball they can get, leaving to muffer batsmen the boyish sport of knocking a lively ball over the heads of out-fielders. The “Yankee” balls, which are palmed off upon unsuspecting persons by the Nassau street dealers in baseball materials, are not made according to rule, and are shoved on purchasers simply because they being made more cheaply are more profitable to sell. The Van Horn ball is used by the Mutual and all the first-class clubs, and is the most durable and the best in the market. |
| Source | New York Sunday Mercury |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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