Word: heydler
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...Balls. President John Heydler of the National League said that home-runs in his league dropped off 45% when umpires roughened the dead white, glossy balls with dirt. He suggested that if manufacturers left the leather covers unfinished instead of polishing them, pitchers would be able to handle the ball better, batters would not be able to see it so well...
Spit ball. Went on Heydler: "The spitball . . . will never return ... an unsightly, insanitary form of delivery...
...years, baseball passes have been given to the President. The 54th was last week handed by John Heydler, President of the National League, to President Hoover. As usual, it was No. 1, bore the U. S. seal. Unlike all others, it was in an elephant hide case...
...major arguments in favor of the step are two. Many familiar with the sight of a first-class pitcher who has allowed three hits in seven innings being removed from the line-up to allow a strong hitter to toe the plate. Mr. Heydler's plan would allow the pinch-hitter and keep the pitcher in the game. Besides the elimination of this handicap to a team, Mr. Heydler points out that his plan would speed up ball games by doing away with the annoying delays of getting a pitcher ready to hit, and getting him a sweater when...
...creation of a new specialized class in baseball brings the question around to the viewpoint of the spectator, from whose grandstand Mr. Heydler took one look at the problem. Half the nervous thrill of baseball comes when "the weak end of the order" comes to bat in a rally two runners on base, two out, the score in a ticklish position, and the pitcher up. How many in the bleachers would substitute invariably for the trembling of the game in the chances of a weak hitter or a pinch-hitter entering cold, the placid content in the assurance that Casey...