Clipping:Running on called balls

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Date Saturday, May 11, 1867
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[from answers to correspondents] There is but one rule which distinctly prohibits runs or bases being made on dead balls, and that is in section 19, which refers only to foul balls. Players are obliged to return and touch their bases in cases of fly balls when the ball is alive and in play–see section 26. It will be seen that on these two rules the prohibition of running bases applies in two different cases, the one for dead balls and the other–only in part a prohibition–for live balls. Consequently, as there is no rule in which the words distinctly prevent bases being run on dead balls as such, there is no objection to running bases on “called” balls, which are made dead balls by rule 10. This rule (section 10) as reported from the committee of rules reads so as to allow bases to be taken only when given on a third called ball or a baulk, but the convention struck the latter clause out very unwisely, as the rule as it now reads gives an advantage to the batting nine, except the pitcher is very careful and accurate in his delivery.

Source New York Clipper
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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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