Excerpt from The Art of Pitching and FieldingThe revised edition Of The Art of Pitching and the Art of Fielding, forming a part of spalding's library OF athletic sports for 1886, contains a new departure alike in the form Of publication and in the extent Of the ground covered by the books. The new edition Of the hand-books combines the Works on pitching and fielding together in one vol ume Of over two hundred pages, and the books on batting and base-running in another volume. To each work has been added the statistics of the past season showing the best average' play in each depart ment Of the players Of the National League, the American Association, the Eastern League and the Southern League.This first volume contains instructions in the art of pitching and fielding, and the revision given it by the author, has led to a decided improvement in both works. The series Of two volumes containing the four works Of instruction, should be in the hands of every member of a professional base ball team, while itwill be found equally Of advantage for the amateur class Of the fraternity. These books will be revised each year, and all the new rules and new points will be added, as also the past season's records of best averages, etc.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.