Clipping:Bases moved inside the foul line; added powers of the umpire
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| Date | Wednesday, November 24, 1886 |
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| Text | [reporting on the joint rules committee meeting 11/17/1886] The umpires' lot is relieved of half the anxiety of former years. In the first place, the third and first bases are moved wholly within the foul lines, so that hereafter the umpire need judge fouls only by the foul line, regardless of whether it passes over the base or not. The base is moved in by moving each base pin from the foul line seven and a half inches down the base line toward second, which puts the outside of the base bag exactly on the base line. Next, the umpire is positively prohibited from reversing a decision after once made, and hereafter a decision given “settles it.” And it is distinctly defined that no player, not even the captain, shall ever dispute or question a decision save by way of asking for the construction of a rule as applicable to a play. This is the only privilege given to interrupt an umpire, and it can be done only by one of the two captains after time has been called for that purpose at his request. The umpires are now masters of the situation, and have only themselves to blame if they do not remain so. Their further powers are these: The umpire is sole judge whether a player is too sick or too badly injured to continue play. They shall be sole judge of fit condition of the grounds for play in case of rain after game begins, and the sole judge of when it becomes too dark to continue play. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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