Base ball for beginners . ror a school commencement or to call upon your best girl. Beclean. Be tidy. Keep your stockings up. Fasten your belttightly. Wear a clean cap gaily. Keep your hair cut. Keepyour head up. Remember that you are an American boy, asgood as any boy that lives, playing the great American game ofBase Ball. The gay, airy, clean, tidily dressed Base Ball playermakes a favorable impression. Spectators like to see clean,tidy, gay, business-like boys play Base Ball. Everyone likesneatness and efficiency. Choose a bat to suit your strength. The best way to choosea bat is to like t
Base ball for beginners . ror a school commencement or to call upon your best girl. Beclean. Be tidy. Keep your stockings up. Fasten your belttightly. Wear a clean cap gaily. Keep your hair cut. Keepyour head up. Remember that you are an American boy, asgood as any boy that lives, playing the great American game ofBase Ball. The gay, airy, clean, tidily dressed Base Ball playermakes a favorable impression. Spectators like to see clean,tidy, gay, business-like boys play Base Ball. Everyone likesneatness and efficiency. Choose a bat to suit your strength. The best way to choosea bat is to like the feel of it. If it feels good in your hand;if you feel as if you can hit with it, buy it. It is best that a boy shall not use a bat too heavy for him,nor one too long nor too short. A good deal depends upon thebuild of the boy and his strength and his natural style of hit-ting. Favor lightness over weight, though the best wood is,alas, heavy. Having chosen a uniform, shoes and glove, the boy can nowproceed to PLAY BALL!. 1—Correct grip for curve ball. 2—Correct grip for fast ball. 3—Correctgrip for change of pace, ball far back in fingers. SPALDINGS ATHLETIC LIBRARY. 11 is, make use of all parts of the rubber—both ends, the center,etc. Most pitchers dig a hole for the pitching toe and pitchevery ball from that hole. PROPER USE OF RUBBER. A pitcher can use all of the rubber with great advantage tohimself. Many pitchers take up their positions on the rubber byputting one foot on it and the other in the rear of it. Thisposition is an infraction of Rule 30, which says that both feetshall be squarely on the ground and in front of the pitchersplate; and in the act of delivering the ball to the bat, he mustkeep one foot in contact with the pitchers plate defined inRule 9. So, to take up a pitching position with one foot in the rearof the rubber, is a balk. Young pitchers should be exceedingly careful to start out bytaking the proper position on the rubber. Begin right. Bothf
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