Clipping:Playing the right fielder in

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Date Saturday, August 28, 1875
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A new “point” was introduced in baseball on the occasion of the meeting between the Delaware and Buckeye Clubs at Columbus, O., the new point consisting of playing the right-fielder as right short, or nearly so, leaving the centre-fielder to attend to long-hit balls to right field. It was done from the fact that the pitching was too swift to be hit to the outfield as often as it was likely to be at right short, and by the playing of the second baseman well back of second, an open place was covered, which usually yields base-hits when the second baseman plays to cover right short.

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

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