Clipping:A ball knocked from the baseman's hands

From Protoball
Jump to navigation Jump to search
19C Clippings
Scroll.png


Add a Clipping
Date Sunday, June 17, 1866
Text

Birdsall, after making his first-base by a fine grounder, in attempting to get to his second, was touched by the ball in Fryat’s hands before he reached it, but just as the ball was held–and held it was, too–they came into collision, and the ball was knocked out of Fryat’s hands, and the umpire, as is usual, decided the player not out. Now, it is very seldom, under such circumstances, that a ball can be held by the base-player when his opponent runs or stumbles against him, and if the ball is held, if but for a moment or two, the fact of its being knocked out of the fielder’s hands by the collision of the two men should not nullify the previous act. We refer to this instance, not as an error of judgment, for it was a close thing any way, but simply to point out the error of considering every ball knocked out of a fielder’s hands as not held.

Source New York Sunday Mercury
Comment Edit with form to add a comment
Query Edit with form to add a query
Submitted by Richard Hershberger
Origin Initial Hershberger Clippings

Comments

<comments voting="Plus" />