Word: batsman
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...place of seven. If the rule is adopted, it will of course give a great advantage to pitchers who have good control of the ball, and likewise be detrimental to those who have not. We strongly favor the new rule, however, for the reason that it gives the batsman a fairer show to hit the ball, and will tend to greatly raise the batting averages which were so low last year. It will also make the games more exciting and interesting than those of last year, where in some cases two or three scratch hits were all that were made...
...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...
Patridge, the heavy batsman of the Dartmouth College nine, has signed with the New York League team for next season...
...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 the batsman by willfully throwing the ball at him, or so close to him as to amount to the same thing. For years past the rules governing the calling of strikes and balls have been such as to give undue advantage to the pitcher, and also to prevent the necessary freedom of action...
...Hubbard is a Yalensian, Coolidge of Harvard has received offers for the last three seasons to join the professional ranks. Sawyer of Clevelands is a college graduate, Bassett of the Browns is thought of as an acquisition for the Providences, while Baker, the Harvard short stop, a fine batsman, has been more than once solicited by the Clevelands. Dills, well known at Boston, received inviting professional invitations which were refused. -[Globe...