Clipping:Runners no longer advance on bases on balls unless forced

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Date	Sunday, December 20, 1868
Text	In giving bases on called balls the striker alone takes a base now, unless a player be on the first base when three balls are called; but unless obliged to vacate a base in accordance with the rule governing base-running, no base can be given on called balls except the first. Last year, if there was a player on third-base and three balls were called, the player in question came home; but now such a player cannot take a base on called balls unless all three bases are occupied when the striker is given a base. New York Sunday Mercury December 20, 1868 some batsmen in the habit of running in on the ball The amendment to the rule governing the striker’s movements are judicious. Last season the words “About to strike the ball”, were found to be too indefinite, this working giving the striker too much latitude in his movements. Now, while at the same time he is permitted to move with freedom in striking at the ball, he is obliged, when in the act of striking, to stand astride the line of the home-base. This not only prevents his taking any backward step; from doing which he is otherwise expressly prohibited by the rule; but it prevents him from running in to meet the ball, as some batsmen are getting in the habit of doing, and by which they shortened the distance between themselves and the pitcher, and made the latter’s position far more dangerous even than it is now. The batsman now has all the legitimate freedom of movement he is entitled to, and the man who cannot bat a ball as skillfully under the new wording of the rule as he did before, is not much of a batsman. New York Sunday Mercury December 20, 1868
Source	New York Sunday Mercury
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Submitted by	Richard Hershberger
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