Clipping:Runners required to return to their base on the run
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| Date | Thursday, August 10, 1882 |
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| Text | Louisville exchange: “The rule putting a man out because of his failure to run back immediately after a foul ball is struck is altogether out of place, and is calculated to confuse the game. Yesterday three men were put out on the technicalities of this rule.” Possible. The rule was made to stop players from loafing back to first or second every time a foul is hit. If the Eclipse have men who are caught in it, they ought to catch on to a fine also. A ball-field is not the place for lazy people. Cincinnati Enquirer August 10, 1882 [from Questions Answered] When a foul ball is batted and not caught, does the simple fact of the base-runner not returning to his base on a run, whether or not the ball be thrown to his base, necessitate his being called out by the Umpire? If so, why is it ever necessary to throw the ball to a base for the purpose of putting out a man running on a foul ball not caught? … Some Umpires so interpret the rule. The ball should reach the pitcher's hands first; then, if the chance is offered, the ball could be sent to a base to catch a runner going back. Cincinnati Enquirer August 16, 1882 |
| Source | Cincinnati Enquirer |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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