1860.21

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Clipper Backs Off Fly Game Support

Salience Peripheral
Tags Newspaper Coverage, Post-Knickerbocker Rule Changes
Location Greater New York City
City/State/Country: NYC, NY, United States
Game Base Ball
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Adult
Text

"We have hitherto warmly advocated the adoption of the "fly game"...but our experience this season has led us to modify our views somewhat...base ball is a superior school for fielding to cricket...(because of) the greater degree of activity required to field well...owing principally to the additional effort necessary...to catch the ball on the bound...any alteration of the rules in relation to the catch on the bound will not have that tendency to improve the character of the fielding ...that many suppose it will."

Sources

New York Clipper, Nov. 10, 1860

Comment

The "Fly game" again failed of passage at the NABBP convention in December 1860.

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