Clipping:An infield fly dropped for a double play; short stop playing back
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| Date | Sunday, June 19, 1870 |
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| Text | [Cincinnati vs. Atlantic 6/14/1870] In the tenth inning on the Atlantic side, after Pike had been caught out, McDonald and Pearce batted finely for their bases, and the one was at first base and the other at second with but one man out and the winning run almost sure of attainment, when Smith sent a high ball to George Wright who was standing back of short-field. George, instead of taking the ball on the fly standing up, stooped down and letting the ball fall in his hands and bound out again on the ground, picked it up, threw it to Waterman, who stood at third base, prepared for the play, and thereby put out McDonald, forced off at third; and as Waterman promptly threw the ball to Sweasy, Pearce was also forced off at second, the double-play ending the inning for a blank. This piece of strategic play, done so coolly as it was, quite took the crowd of partisans back, and it was some time before they could see the point. The play was the finest thing of the kind we ever saw played in a game. |
| Source | New York Sunday Mercury |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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