ON THIS DAY IN EARLY DODGERS HISTORY

Posted by Ron on Jan 2, 2012 | 0 comments

Sportswriter Henry Chadwick

Jan. 2, 1883:  Brooklyn sportswriter Henry Chadwick reminisces about “base ball” back in the 1860s, when umpires didn’t call balls and strikes unless a batter simply refused to swing at anything:  “I once saw Al Smith, in a match between the Brooklyn Atlantics and the New York Mutuals, pitch sixty balls to one batsman before the first strike was called.”