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The Delayed Double Steal -- New or Familiar?
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| City/State/Country: | Brooklyn, NY, United States |
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| Text | Richard Hershberger comments below on another report of a delayed double steal, this one by the Boston club. The Atlantics had evidently pulled one not long before. |
| Sources | New York Sun, June 11, 1873: |
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| Comment | From Richard Hershberger, 150 years ago today, 6/10/2023:
"The Bostons are in Brooklyn, where they beat the Mutuals 8-7. Recall that a couple of weeks back I related the earliest known description of a delayed double steal, done by the Atlantics. Here we see the same thing, this time by the Mutuals. Was this play already widely known, but we haven't noticed it earlier? Or did the Mutuals see what the Atlantics had done and decided to try it themselves? Who knows? The problem is that these plays are worked out, then the vocabulary to talk about them comes later. Reporters, even if they recognize what they just saw, will have trouble writing out it until the vocabulary is created. It is entirely possible that teams had been doing this for years, but only recently have reporters realized that there is something going on here.
Speaking of vocabulary, notice that Dave Eggler "stole to" second base, not "stole" second base. Both constructions goes back to before the Civil War. The "steal to" form has been gradually fading for a decade now. This is a late example. This is a pity. To "steal to" second is to catch the pitcher and catcher off guard, while to "steal" second is an act of larceny. I think the first one is more accurate."
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Submission Note | FB posting, 6/10/2023 |
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1873.14 The Delayed Double Steal -- New or Familiar?"
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