Clipping:Automatic return of base runners on foul balls repealed
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| Date | Saturday, January 8, 1881 |
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| Text | The section which allowed base-runners on foul bhits to return to bases without being put out has been stricken out. Under the new rule, therefore, if a base-runner be on first base when the batsman hits a foul ball that is not caught on the fly or first bound, he is liable to be put out in returning to the base he had left when the ball was hit, just as he was when the old rules were in vogue, with the exception that the pitcher is not now required to be standing within the lines of his position before the ball—returned to him from the fielder—can be used to put such base-runner out. He can take the ball from the fielder even were he standing on the base the runner was returning to, and then legally put him out. It will be seen by this that not only does the batsman incur a double penalty for hitting a foul ball to that he incurs in hitting a fair one—such balling allowed to be caught on the bound as well as the fly—but the base-runner is unjustly punished for the batsman's poor hitting. |
| Source | New York Clipper |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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