Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1914 — Intentional Pass. [ARTICLE]

Intentional Pass.

Dode Birmingham isn’t particularly strong for the intentional pass, but doesn’t quite see how it can be abolished. He riddles the only practical remedy suggested to date by saying: “If you prevent the catcher from stepping out, you are going to kill off one of the finest bits of baseball — the pltch-outtocatch a base runner off second base or to knock oqjt the hit and run being attempted by the opposing team. You cannot kill the k intentional pass in that way without also killing other important features of the game which we cannot afford to have killed."