. St. Nicholas [serial]. height of the ball as it crosses the plate. Rule 31 says that A fairly delivered ball is aball pitched or thrown to the bat by the pitcher,while standing in his position and facing thebatsman, that passes over any portion of thehome base, before touching the ground, not lowerthan the batsmans knee, nor higher than hisshoulder. For every such fairly delivered ballthe umpire shall call one strike. From knee to shoulder may be any distancefrom about twenty-six inches in the case of a short man to thirty-eight inches with a tall reference to Fig. 1, page 809, will sh
. St. Nicholas [serial]. height of the ball as it crosses the plate. Rule 31 says that A fairly delivered ball is aball pitched or thrown to the bat by the pitcher,while standing in his position and facing thebatsman, that passes over any portion of thehome base, before touching the ground, not lowerthan the batsmans knee, nor higher than hisshoulder. For every such fairly delivered ballthe umpire shall call one strike. From knee to shoulder may be any distancefrom about twenty-six inches in the case of a short man to thirty-eight inches with a tall reference to Fig. 1, page 809, will show howmuch greater chance there is of fooling the bats-man by altering the height at which the ballcrosses the plate, than by changing its directionto right or left. The bat presents a much smallertarget for the ball from A to C than it does fromA to B. Hence the necessity of control of heightas well as direction of the ball. So your practice should include throwing lowballs, waist balls, high balls, at the signal of the. Start of the out-shoot
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