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|Year=1860
|Year=1860
|Year Number=21
|Year Number=21
|Headline=NABBP Refines Rules on the Ball
|Headline=Clipper Backs Off Fly Game Support
|Salience=2
|Salience=3
|Tags=Equipment, Post-Knickerbocker Rule Changes,  
|Tags=Newspaper Coverage, Post-Knickerbocker Rule Changes,  
|Location=Greater New York City,  
|Location=Greater New York City,  
|Country=US
|Country=USA
|State=NY
|State=NY
|City=NYC
|City=NYC
|Game=Base Ball,
|Game=Base Ball,  
|Immediacy of Report=Contemporary
|Immediacy of Report=Contemporary
|Age of Players=Adult
|Age of Players=Adult
|Text=<p>For the third year, the Convention put the elimination of the bound rule to a vote, and again the bound rule won, 55-37. The Association's own Rules and Regulations Committee, chaired by Doc Adams, had favored a move to the fly rule for fair balls. Membership had reached nearly 80 clubs from as far away as Michigan. <span style="text-decoration: underline;">New York</span> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Herald</span>, 3/18/1860.</p>
|Text=<p>"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."</p>
<p>The National Association of Baseball Players rules now specify that "The ball must weigh not less than five and three-fourths, nor more than six ounces avoirdupois. It must measure not less than nine and three-fourths, nor more than ten inches in circumference. It must be composed of India rubber and yarn, and covered with leather, and, in all match games, shall be furnished by the challenging club, and become the property of the winning club, as a trophy of victory." (1860 National Association of Baseball Players, Rules and Regulations Adopted by the National Association of Baseball Players - New York, March 14<sup>th</sup> 1860.)&nbsp;</p>
|Sources=<p><em>New York Clipper,&nbsp;</em>Nov. 10, 1860</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
|Comment=<p>The "Fly game" again failed of passage at the NABBP convention in December 1860.</p>
<p>1860.22 - Routledge's "Ball Games" Depicts Simplified Form of Stoolball</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>"This is an old English sport, mentioned by Gower and Chaucer, and was at one period common to women as well as men. In the Northern parts of England, particularly in Yorkshire, it is practiced in the following manner: - A stool being set upon the ground, one of the players takes his place before it, while his antagonist, standing at a distance, tosses a ball, with the intention of striking the stool. It is the former player's business to prevent this, by striking it away with the hand, reckoning one to the game for every stroke of the ball; if, on the contrary, it should be missed by the hand, and hit the stool, the players change places. The conqueror of the game is he who strikes the ball most times before it touches the stool."</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Ball Games</span> [George Routledge, New York, ], pp 61-62. The copy of this book at MCC is annotated "c1860" in hand. <strong>Note:</strong> This game, having only two players, no bat, no running, is highly simplified. It does not appear to reflect knowledge of the more evolved Sussex play at about this period. A cursory Google search reveals no stoolball reference in Geoffrey Chaucer or his contemporary John Gower; but then, spelling is a big issue, right?</p>
|Sources=<p><a href="http://wiki.vbba.org/index.php/Rules/1860">http://wiki.vbba.org/index.php/Rules/1860</a>&nbsp;</p>
|Query=<p>What changes are made in adopting this rule? Is the ball a bit larger?</p>
|Reviewed=Yes
|Has Supplemental Text=No
|Has Supplemental Text=No
}}
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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, USA
Game Base Ball
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Adult
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"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."

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New York Clipper, Nov. 10, 1860

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

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