Advocates of a more skillful approach to baseball existed bythe late 1850s .
Organized baseball annually rejected until1864 the adoption of the fly rule , a change considered pivotal to making the sport more scientific . ' ?
Advocates of a more skillful approach to baseball existed bythe late 1850s , but organized baseball annually rejected until1864 the adoption of the fly rule , a change considered pivotal to making the sport more scientific . ' ?