Clipping:Trying to intimidate the umpire to call balls; umpire calling neither balls nor strikes

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Date	Sunday, July 6, 1873
Text	[Athletic vs. Baltimore 7/4/1873] The crowd at this point was disagreeably boisterous, and attempted, in the most cowardly manner, to intimidate the umpire. Certain players, in encouraging Cummings not to strike, sustained this ruffianly behavior, and ball after ball went over the plate in the precise place he wanted it. “Give him his base,” shrieked the crowd, keeping up a constant howl and disturbance. Sixteen balls were pitched, and Cummings not seeming to want to strike, the umpire called “third strike and out.” A storm of hisses greeting this decision, and in a few moments the assemblage flooded over the ground, and it looked threatening for a time, especially as there were no police present. A long time elapsed ere the inning could be finished, the crowd verging closely on the base lines.
Source	Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch
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Submitted by	Richard Hershberger
Origin	Initial Hershberger Clippings

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