Clipping:A passed ball into the crowd
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| Date | Saturday, October 14, 1876 |
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| Text | [from answers to correspondents] N is at the bat, and a man is on third base. Pitcher delivers the ball to catcher, who fails to catch it, and the ball strikes the body of a person in the crowd behind the catcher (no backstop), and rebounds to catcher, who touches the man coming home from third. The umpire decides the man out, when the captain of the N--'s asks the umpire to reverse his decision, claiming dead ball. The umpire refused, and the captain declined to play with an umpire that would not conform with the Amateur Rules; whereupon the umpire called the game, and gave it to the L—s by a score of 9 to 0. Was the umpire justifiable in the course he pursued, and do the N—s have to abide by his decision? … This is one of those cases in which a nine is justified in refusing the play, the violation of the rules by the umpire being plain and palpable, as the ball stopped by the outsider was dead for the purpose of putting a player out by it until it was settled in the hands of the pitcher while in his position, but not dead for running bases or scoring runs. |
| Source | New York Clipper |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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