Word: battering
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...judge a good bound on ground balls and weak throwing. His throwing to second is much surer than it was from third to first. He has too great a tendency to allow balls to go through him. This will be remedied by practice. He is a fair and lucky batter and fair base runner...
Norton, second base, covers a great deal of ground and is a sure thrower. He fields thrown balls and hard hits well, but is apt to fumble slow grounders. He is a good base runner and weak batter...
...that position. He does not as yet play the position as he should, but will improve with practice. He is quick to field ground balls and throws fairly well to first base. Is awkward in catching thrown balls and touching the runner. He is a weak batter and ordinary base runner...
Coonley is slow, fields his position well, bats fairly; Walker is a good backstop, accurate but very slow thrower, poor batter; Lighthall is careless, weak on ground balls, poor batter; Wadsworth is uncertain, very poor on ground balls, fair batter but tries to hit too hard; Wilder is a fairly good man but is so slow that he cannot be counted on; Cassatt fields his position very prettily but is not a sure man, fair batter; Phelan is a good fielder; Bigelow is slow and is inclined to go to sleep out in the field, good batter; Adams is very...
...dummy has been rigged up and put in the batter's box in the cage so that the pitchers may know better where to put the ball...