Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 277, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1915 — Recruits Are Plate Shy. [ARTICLE]

Recruits Are Plate Shy.

"The bulk off recruits who come into the big leagues nowadays,” says Manager McGraw of the New York Giants, “don’t step into the ball. Instead, they stay away from it and, as a result, few of them ever will be batters. Just why the new crop of ball players should be plate shy is a mystery to me. In the olden days all the men stepped into the ball and hit it on the nose. Of course, some of them were hit by pitched balls, but that always was looked upon as something that was to be expected and endured.'*