Word: batsman
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Jones was easily the leading batsman with three singles to his credit on four trips to the plate...
From now on the work in the Cage will consist of battery work, batting, and fielding. For batting practice the Cage will be divided into four alleys protected by netting. Each will have a pitcher, catcher, and batsman. The netting will be removed for fielding practice. If the present weather conditions continue, outdoor practice will begin in about two weeks. Captain R. R. Ayres '15, who is still at his home in Montclair, N. J., recovering from an operation, will join the University squad as soon as it leaves the Cage...
First: The catcher shall not during actual play speak to the batsman, except where occasion requires a bona-fide word of caution and in speaking to the pitcher he shall not use words reflecting or calculated to reflect upon the batsman or any member of the opposing team...
...pursuing them in the wrong spirit. To my thinking, the sport most in need of reform now is not football (though that is far from perfect), but baseball. It is hard to conceive of anything meaner than tripping an adversary as he runs past a base, or "rattling" a batsman with derisive language poured into his ear by the catcher, or "breaking up" a pitcher and a visiting team by that organized cheering which is designed to make up for the home team's misplays by causing misplays among the visitors. Yet such things are tolerated by great institutions...