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• Richard Hershberger, October 2013  + (<p><strong>Introducing . . . H … <p><strong>Introducing . . . Hershie's Nuggets!</strong></p></br><p>Richard Hershberger has offered to supply short pieces on assorted sweet subtopics in early base ball history. The first of these, Sliding in the Amateur Era, is a 3-page summary of contemporary news accounts' evidence on sliding.</p></br><p>It begins: "Did base runners slide in the amateur era, and if so, how frequently? Looking at period reports, the most striking feature is that the evidence is thin. There are undoubted reports of runners sliding, but they are few and far between. The problem then is to determine if reports of sliding are rare because sliding was rare, or because it was commonplace and therefore unremarkable: are they man bites dog reports, or dog bites man? Or something in between?"</p></br><p>Nugget #1 is found at http://protoball.org/Sliding.</p>omething in between?"</p> <p>Nugget #1 is found at http://protoball.org/Sliding.</p>)

• Richard Hershberger, October 2013  +