Clipping:Chadwick still against home runs
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| Date | Wednesday, June 16, 1886 |
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| Text | Papa Chadwick very sensibly remarks: “It is astonishing how the 'groundlings' in an audience are tickled with home runs, no matter how made. They think them the perfection of batting, yet if the crowd would only consider a moment they would regard this style of hitting is a great waste of physical strength in a match, each home run requiring a 120-yards dash in spring running at a twelve or fifteen-seconds pace. Suppose the first batsman in each inning of a game leads off with a home run, and the next three are put out, nine runs are thereby scored at the cost of running 120 yards at top speed nine times. Suppose, on the other hand, that the first batsman in each inning leads off with a short hit, which easily earns him first base., and is then sent home by two sacrifice hits and another base hit, each inning. Just as many runs would be scored without half the waste of strength, and pretty fielding would be seen in the place of the fielders standing still while one man runs after a long hit ball. Home-run slugging is a marked feature of weak play at the bat, and experience shows it. |
| Source | The Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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