Excerpt from The Art of Batting and Base Running: Containing Instructive Chapters on Scientific Batting, Placing the Ball, Base Hits and Earned Runs, the Right Form for Hitting, Playing Points on the Pitcher, the Proper Swing of the Bat, Facing for Position, the Correct Position in Batting, the True Crit This revised work on Batting and Base Running will be found to be greatly improved over the sepa rate books on the same subject of 1885. Especially Is this the case in regard to the additions made toit in the form ofthe new features of the best batting aver ages, and in hints on The Points ofthe Game, and on the management of professional club teams. The two books, Nos. 3 and 4, which include Pitching, Fielding, Batting and Base Running, in fact, form a little library ofinstructive chapters on every point in base ball, useful as well as interesting to every player, Whether professional or amateur. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.