Word: batting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Dartmouth again defeated Amherst Wednesday, at Amherst, in an interesting, but loosely played game. Haskell pitched for Amherst, and although wild, was effective until the eighth inning, when he gave out, Pope succeeding him. Alvord's support behind the bat was fine, and his throwing to second base excellent, Scruton was batted very freely, Storrs and Haskell making home runs. Artz caught well for Dartmouth, but the fielding on both sides was weak. The score which follows is a rather remarkable...
Longman's Magazine gives the following account of some English cricketers who watched a game of base-ball at Philadelphia recently, and then proceeded to form a somewhat poor opinion of the batting qualities of the base-ball players. Cricketers are apt to despise what is called a full-pitched ball - that is, one which does not touch the ground before it reaches the bat. The cricketer can have but a poor eye, in fact, he must be but a poor player, who cannot hit such a ball; and though if he is careless about it, he may readily...
...Buckland's bowling proved altogether too much for the best of the base-ball batsmen. Again and again did these players, keen to track the ball curving through the air, fail to follow the break of the ball from the ground, nearly every ball going past the bat, though it had seemed to them that with such a bat and no curving in the air, it would be impossible to miss the ball...
...Those are the college boys playing base-ball," remarked the female cicerone to her visiting friend as the Garden street horse car passed by the Common, where a decidedly seedy looking lot of town boys, with a negro at the bat, were indulging in the national game. "I wonder the teachers don't have their trousers mended," said the visitor reflectively; "the poor boys have no mothers to do it for them! Couldn't the girls in the Annex find time to do a little sewing for the lads?" - Cambridge Chronicle...
...suggestion I have offered seems to me to be practicable enough. There is sufficiently good material outside of the 'Varsity nine to make up a team that would give the 'Varsity good practice in the field, at the bat, and on the bases. The benefit of such a nine would not only be felt in the practice the 'Varsity would receive but an excellent chance for development of talent for future nines would be given...