Clipping:Confusion over third strikes and the fly game

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Date Saturday, June 17, 1865
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[Enterprise vs. Gotham 6/6/1865] In this [the tenth] innings the Enterprise were put out in one, two, three order, the last man being put out on three strikes by the usual bound catch. By many present this was regarded as an illegitimate style of play in the fly game, but the rules admit of the bound catch in this instance, it being regarded in light of a foul ball from striking the ground back of the home base, the sentence in rule 11, which reads, “It shall be considered fair,” referring to the character of the strike and not the ball.

Source New York Clipper
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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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