Clipping:A ball is fair if touched in fair territory

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Date Saturday, December 15, 1866
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[from answer to correspondents] A player is on the 3d base; A is at the bat; he knocks a sky ball which alights in the pitcher’s hands inside the foul lines. The ball bounds out of the pitcher’s hands and strikes the ground outside the foul line, and is caught on the first bound by the catcher. In the meantime the player on the 3d base runs home. The ball is passed to the pitcher and then to the 3d base. Who is out? ... No one is out. The fly catch was missed on a fair ball, consequently, the bound catch did not count, and the base player could run home.

Source New York Clipper
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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
Origin Initial Hershberger Clippings

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