That's easy. The new rules have made these pitchers turn square, and their offerings have been clouted. I know some pitchers who used the old emery and the shiner and all the rest, and they were bearcats. Now they have to get by on their natural ability and they don't rate so high. I can think of one pitcher who was a wonder last year. They took the old sail ball away from him, and now he hasn't enough to get by in a good class AA league. So it goes. They say that the ball is livelier. I think that is the old bunk. The pitchers are not pitching as they used to and the batters have a better chance.


As quoted in "Ruth Has One Great Fear: May Drive Ball Back At Pitcher Some Day and Injure Him"

Babe Ruth Quotes

That's easy. The new rules have made these pitchers turn square, and their offerings have been clouted. I know some pitchers who used the old emery...

That's easy. The new rules have made these pitchers turn square, and their offerings have been clouted. I know some pitchers who used the old emery...

That's easy. The new rules have made these pitchers turn square, and their offerings have been clouted. I know some pitchers who used the old emery...

That's easy. The new rules have made these pitchers turn square, and their offerings have been clouted. I know some pitchers who used the old emery...