Clipping:Base hit or fielders choice?

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Date	Saturday, April 14, 1877
Text	[from answers to correspondents] Man on third base; striker bats a ball to right field; he might have been thrown out on the hit, but the ball was thrown home, but not soon enough to head off runner for third base. As no error can be charged, is batter entitled to a first-base hit? He brings in a man and afterwards scores himself. … We give the batsman credit ofr a base-hit on a hit of this kind, for this reason: any batsman who can hit a ball to right-field—not right short, but out in right field—under circumstances like this, is a good batsman; and, though there might be a chance that he could have been thrown out, the play is such as to make it doubtful, and we give him the benefit of the doubt and a base hit.
Source	New York Clipper
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Submitted by	Richard Hershberger
Origin	Initial Hershberger Clippings

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