Clipping:Taking first on a balk; dead balls on balks and balls
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| Date | Saturday, July 21, 1866 |
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| Text | [from answers to correspondents] 1. If a striker hits a ball fair, on which the umpire calls a “baulk,” from the pitcher having moved his feet in delivery, and that ball be caught on the fly, or passed to 1st base in time to put the striker out, is he out? 2. Is not a ball dead that is called a baulk or a ball by the umpire. 3. If a ball or a baulk be called by the umpire, and the striker, having twice struck, strikes for the third time, and the catcher takes the ball on the bound, is the striker out? ... 1.The striker is not out, but is legitimately entitled to his 1st base; for the moment he struck a fair ball he became a player running the bases, and as such was entitled to take his base on the baulk called. 2. It is, and no player can be put out on such a ball; and neither can he make a base on it unless a baulk or three balls be called. 3. No, he is not out, and not only that, but the strike does not count, as the ball at which he struck was not a fair ball and therefore not one to call strikes on. |
| Source | New York Clipper |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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