Clipping:The bag is the base, not the location; Chadwick lost that rules fight

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Date	Saturday, August 4, 1866
Text	The rules require that the base bag should be “securely fastened” to the post, and in our judgment a man cannot be fairly given out unless the base is fastened but the rules say differently. The question whether the base post–the base proper–or the base bag–the base according to the rule–should be considered the base was discussed considerably in the Committee on Rules before the Convention met, and the reason why it was decided to make the base bag the base was, the difficulty an umpire would have in seeing whether a player’s foot was on the base post or not; whereas he could plainly see whether he touched the base bag, and so it was finally determined to consider the bag the base, and to regard a man out if he was touched with the ball when he was not touching the bag, whether he had his foot on the base post or not.
Source	New York Clipper
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Submitted by	Richard Hershberger
Origin	Initial Hershberger Clippings

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