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Excerpt from Touching Second: The Science of Baseball, The History of the National Game, Its Development Into an Exact Mathematical Sport, Records of Great Plays and Players, Anecdotes and Incidents of Decisive Struggles on the DiamondThe manuscript was originally written by the re porter and was rewritten, added to, corrected and re vised, by the player. In it are included several articles originally printed in the american magazine under the reporter's name, with corrections and additions by the player. The whole was rewritten into its present form by the authors, working together, and is pre sented with the hope that it may assist fans, younger ball players and all lovers of baseball to a better appre ciation of the finer points of the national game, and enable them to see behind the moves of the men on the field, the generalship and brainwork of inside play.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.