Word: pitchs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...connection with the discussions on pitching which have been going the rounds of the press, the following from the Clipper on League pitching rules may be of interest : "The question 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...
...public fountains and maintained by the same charitable foundation as the fountain. Every visitor to Cairo is familiar with these. Passing a fountain at almost any time of the day, he will be pretty sure to hear from the building connected with it the babel of many infantile voices, pitched in all keys, and on looking in at the open door, he will see a confused mass of little human bodies squatted on the floor, rocking back and forth in well-kept measure, and repeating, parrot-like, the lesson of the day, each viewing with the others as a lung...
Before that time, however, curve pitching was practiced in professional games, and, though its nature was not much understood, everybody seemed to know that a peculiar kind of ball could be delivered, and that Mathews, the present "curver" for the Athletics, was the man who was doing it. Arthur Cummings, who played in the Mutuals of Brocklyn in 1872, and in the Stars of Brooklyn in the years proceeding, also was known to pitch a deceptive ball, but as he quit playing professionally about 1874 his work was gradually forgotten and Matthews given all the credit for the innovation...
...called for 3 o'clock, but just before this a heavy shower came up, and delayed the game for half an hour. Yale came first to the bat. The wet grass made the ball slippery, and Winslow was obliged to give Hubbard his base on balls. A wild pitch sent him to third, and Griggs' fly to centre let him score, giving Yale her first run. Harvard did not score in the first inning, but in the second Crocker reached first on Griggs' fumble, went to second on another fumble by the same player of a ball from Winslow...
...kept from scoring in the eighth inning although she had three men on bases. Harvard made three runs in the eighth inning. Phillips fouled out. Edgerly hit safely and Bruner took his base on balls, Edgerly going to second; both men were advanced one base on a wild pitch. Collins hit to Oliver who put Bruner out at third. Edgerly scored and Collins went to second. Allen got his base on an attempted put-out and both men scored on a wild pitch, Nichols took his base on balls and Smith went out at first assisted by Oliver...