Clipping:Proposal to allow all bases to be overrun
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| Date | Saturday, December 12, 1874 |
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| Text | One of the best amendments made by the rules referring to base-running, was that which admitted of a player’s overrunning first-base. In every way has it worked satisfactorily, and especially so in prevent accident from spraining the limbs of base-runners. As it has worked so well on one base, we see no reason why it should not be made applicable to the other two. In applying this rule to second and third bases, however, it will be necessary to require the base-runner in every case to return and retouch each base after overrunning, before he can attempt to make the next base. Were any other rule to prevail, the umpire would be constantly puzzled to judge correctly in the matter of a base-runner’s intention to make another base after overrunning; and endless disputes would arise. The more we can amend the rules so as to lessen the chapter of accidents, without materially changing the character and beauty of the play, the better; and thus allowing the bases to be overrun does the one without any respect weakening the play. New York Clipper December 12, 1874 the amateur Shibe club played on an enclosed ground ...[The Shibe Club] played a great many games on their own grounds, and some clubs playing all the series there, just to receive the gate money. Philadelphia All-Day City Item December 13, 1874 |
| Source | New York Clipper |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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