Word: batsman
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Dates: during 1910-1910
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...pursuing them in the wrong spirit. To my thinking, the sport most in need of reform now is not football (though that is far from perfect), but baseball. It is hard to conceive of anything meaner than tripping an adversary as he runs past a base, or "rattling" a batsman with derisive language poured into his ear by the catcher, or "breaking up" a pitcher and a visiting team by that organized cheering which is designed to make up for the home team's misplays by causing misplays among the visitors. Yet such things are tolerated by great institutions...