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- 1850s.24 + (<p>John Thorn feels that "while the … <p>John Thorn feels that "while the Knick rules of September 23, 1845 (and, by William R. Wheaton's report in 1887, the Gothams practice in the 1830s and 1840s) outlawed plugging/soaking a runner in order to retire him, other area clubs were slow to pick up the point."</p></br><p><br/> "Henry Chadwick wrote to the editor of the <span style="text-decoration: underline;">New York Sun,</span> May 14, 1905: 'It happens that the only attractive feature of the rounders game is this very point of 'shying' the ball at the runners, which so tickled Dick Pearce [in the early 1850s, when he was asked to go out to Bedford to see a ball club at play]. In fact, it was not until the '50s that the rounders point of play in question was eliminated from the rules of the game, as played at Hoboken from 1845 to1857.'"<br/> </p></br><p>"The Gotham and the Eagle adopted the Knick rules by 1854 . . . but other<br/> clubs may not have done so till '57."</p>pted the Knick rules by 1854 . . . but other<br/> clubs may not have done so till '57."</p>)