Clipping:No base coach with the bases empty

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Date Saturday, June 12, 1880
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[Chicago vs. Providence 6/4/1880] ...Hines opened play at the bat in the sixth inning, and punished Corcoran with a safe two-base hit to right-centre. There being no one to coach base-runners effectually, and apparently no understanding as to what Hines was to do on signal in running bases, he was left to his own judgment; and very injudiciously he took the risk of going for third on his hit, he calculating on a poor throw-in. The ball was finely returned to Williamson, however, and the result was that Hines was easily captured at third...

Source New York Clipper
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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
Origin Initial Hershberger Clippings

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