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-====== February 9, 1902 ====== +{{page>1902_news#february 9, 1902}}
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-===== News ===== +
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-• President [[Ben Shibe]] and manager [[Connie Mack]] were off to Buffalo to attend American League meetings +
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-• While there Mack planned to suggest a rule allowing a team to substitute another hitter for the pitcher in the batting lineup – a designated hitter, if you will +
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-• His argument was two-fold: first, that most pitchers were bad hitters and, second, that games were unnecessarily delayed while a pitcher recovered his wind between innings after having exerted himself on the basepaths in the previous half-inning +
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-| [[february-8-1902|< Feb 8, 1902]]  |  [[1902 calendar|Back to Calendar]]  |  [[february-12-1902|Feb 12, 1902 >]] | +
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