Clipping:Interpreting when a dead ball is live
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| Date | Sunday, May 9, 1858 |
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| Text | [interpreting “...the players running to the bases shall return to them, and shall not be put out in so returning, unless the ball has been first pitched to the striker.”] An instance...occurred the other day during the practice of the Eagle club, in which a player was thus put out. A ball was slightly struck, and the striker run for the first base while the player on the second base had scampered for the third. The ball, which had dropped close to the home base was instantly picked up by Mr. Gelston, as the umpire decided it was foul, and quickly passing it to Mr. Bixby, it was as quickly returned by him over the home base, to Mr. Gelston, and by him passed down to the second base in time to head off the return of the player to the second. It was contended, on the losing side, that the man was not legally put out, inasmuch as the ball had not been pitched by Mr. Bixby to the striker. On the other side, it was argued that had the striker been at his place on the home base, he might have struck at the ball if he had chosen to do so, but he had no business to be off the home base after the decision of a foul ball had been rendered. The umpire decided the point in favor of the ball. see also NYSM 8/29/1858 |
| Source | New York Sunday Mercury |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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