View source for Clipping:A proposed rule to carry base runners over from one inning to the next

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|Type of Date=Day
|Date=9/25/1878
|Title=a proposed rule to carry base runners over from one inning to the next
|Text=<p>One of the Chicago papers announces that in the game to-day the clubs will try some crazy scheme of putting the men left on bases in one inning back on those bases in the next.  It is scarcely possible that anybody will endure any such foolishness as this, but they may—Chicago audiences will stand a good deal.  The effect of this particular idiocy would be to make the game one inning long instead of nine;  it would take away all incentive to run bases or otherwise exert one's self;  it would break up any catcher in two games, because he would have to catch almost every ball under the bat, and, finally, it would confuse crowd and players beyond ho0e.  For instance:  Suppose Cassidy, Start and Hankinson were to make clean hits after two hands were out, and Larkin were to follow with a hit on which Cassidy was forced out.  Then the rule would demand that Start come to bat, but the alleged improvement would insist on his staying at second.  Perhaps this could be avoided by having the pitcher turn around and pitch toward Start standing on second.  Then he could fulfill both schemes.  But if he got home on a two baser, would it be two runs?  But, seriously, let us have no more fool-play.  Chicago Tribune September 25, 1878</p>
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<p>[Milwaukee vs. Chicago 10/3/1878]  The third inning was a surprise to a great many in the audience, for the new-fangled scheme of placing the men back on the bases on which they were left in the previous inning  was put in practice.  It was not quite clear to some what it all meant to see a man on a base at the commencement of the inning, and the few people on the ground were at a loss to know how to score this new wrinkle.  … The fourth inning saw Holbert still on a base for the Milwaukees, making three innings in success in which he was on his way to the home plate.  … The new idea of placing the men back on the bases has some admirers, but it appeared yesterday as if it would not be much of a success.  The players themselves did not apparently know where they belonged, and it will require a remodeling of score-sheet should the plan be adopted, which is not likely.  … It may not have had a fair trial yesterday, on account of so few being left on bases, but it certainly does not look like an improvement.  Chicago Tribune October 4, 1878</p>
|Source=Chicago Tribune
|Submitted by=Richard Hershberger
|Origin=Initial Hershberger Clippings
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