Word: batting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...said that the Harvard nine will be strong in every position except behind the bat...
...Princeton will hereafter kindly refrain from practising their deceptive arts upon the guileless batsmen. It is wrong to give them balls that they cannot knock into "kingdom come." It is shame to tease them by sending in curved spheres. In future, pitchers will deliver them straight at the bat so that nothing may baffle the aim of the batsman, who can thus convert his ash into a catapult, by whose means he may kill the pitcher, or anybody else on the field at will, to prove how much of an athlete he has become since he joined college. [Clipper...
...good team into the field; that the members were only absent when sick or injured ; that, though they were naturally dispirited by their misfortunes, the nine showed by their splendid fielding record that they played for all they were worth and that where they failed was in their batting. Now batting is only very rarely a natural gift and must be taught and developed by careful training. Now a player can not learn, however willing he is, to bat against poor pitching or even against pitchers whose curves he knows. The Committee however think he can if he tries hard...
...which will be 'before the house' at the annual conventions of the League and the American Association will be whether it is best to allow an unrestrained freedom of movement in the pitchers delivery-admitting of either a pitched, a tossed, a jerked or an overthrown ball to the bat-or to still further limit the delivery so as to prevent the direct overthrow. There is one evil in connection with the rule of an unrestricted delivery of the ball which requires careful consideration so as to put a stop to it, and that is the effort to intimidate...
...force, why or how it does it they decline to explain. Yyng, of the New York Stock Exchange nine, or the Staten Island nine, as they now call it, is more ready with a theory, which he probably developed at Harvard while taking Ernst's hot balls from the bat. "The out curve," said he, "or the one from right to left, is the only curve that can be made, for the reason that a man can't throw a ball swiftly when he holds it in position to do anything else. To get an out-curve the ball must...