Clipping:Playing with eight players
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| Date | Sunday, October 19, 1862 |
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| Text | [Union of Morrisania vs. Excelsior 10/14/1862] It was not until nearly half-past three that the game was commenced, though the time appointed was 2 P.M.–not a minute too soon, at this period of the season. The delay was occasioned by the absence of players on both sides; the Unions beginning with but eight men, and thus played two innings, when F. Durrell, of the second nine, happened along, and was seized upon to fill the nine. New York Sunday Mercury October 19, 1862 calling strikes an appeal play?; waiting game In regard to strikers waiting at the bat until players make their bases, the remedy lays in the pitcher’s hands, not the umpire’s. The umpire has no right to say anything to the striker in such a case, unless he is called upon by one or other of the fieldsmen for judgment on the striking. If the pitcher, when he sees the striker waiting at the bat until the player running the bases gets home, will ask the striker where he wants a ball, and when he points out the right ball he requires, all the former has to do is to pitch him the ball he wants, and if he then refuses to strike, why, the duty of the umpire is to call one strike for the first ball that comes to him where he directed. But if the pitcher does not send him in the balls he requires, he is right in refusing to strike. New York Clipper October 25, 1862 |
| Source | New York Sunday Mercury |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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