THIS DAY IN EARLY DODGERS HISTORY: JAN. 9

Posted by Ron on Jan 9, 2012 | 0 comments

     JAN. 9, 1887: 

New baseball rules for 1888 will no longer allow batters to order that the ball be pitched either high or low.  “This does away with the arduous work the umpire was subjected to under the old code in deciding waist high balls,” the Brooklyn Eagle comments