Clipping:Tagging up on foul fly catches
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| Date | Saturday, January 8, 1876 |
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| Text | [discussing the proposed rules] It is warmly advocated by good judges of the game among the professional fraternity that the time has come to do away with two of the old features of play in base-running; and they are, first, the putting-out of a base-runner obliged to return to his base on a foul ball, and the making of foul-fly catches exceptions in the case of leaving a base after a fair-fly catch has been made. … ...Foul flies are generally caught by the catcher, or the first or third baseman; and there is not much chance, therefore, of bases being run after such a catch under the new ruling, more than under the old; but it is better that one rule of play should govern both catches, in order to avoid confusion. In the case of foul-bound catches it is different, as those frequently involve long runs to get them, in which case it would be easy to run bases after the catch was made. |
| Source | New York Clipper |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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