Word: battering
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...look upon victory as the rewards of treachery and deceit. That this is the case, anyone who has seen the game of baseball as it is played by the so-called best college nines will at once admit. For the pitcher, instead of delivering the ball to the batter in an honest, straightforward way, that the latter may exert his strength to the best advantage in knocking it, now uses every effort to deceive him by curving-I think that is the word-the ball. And this is looked upon as the last triumph of athletic science and skill...
...professors at Princeton has offered a medal to the best batter on the nine...
...over Nichols' head. The umpire, however, called it a third strike on the ground that the ball struck Ayer's hand instead of the bat. The striker said immediately after that the ball did not come within six inches of his hand. If, however, the ball did strike the batter's hand, he should have been declared out for obstructing the catcher. (See Spaulding's Base-Ball Guide for 1880, p. 113). This decision gave Ayer his second and let in G. P. Merrill who was on second. Ayer was brought in on a base hit by Richardson. The next...
Hopkins played short stop on his freshman nine, and left field on the University last year. He began this season in the field, changed to first, and is now playing at third. He has acquitted himself well in all these positions, and is the strongest batter on the nine...
...place left vacant by Wilcox in right field is filled by McKee, a good batter and sure fielder. He played on the '83 freshman nine and two years on the consolidated...