Clipping:A ball touched by an outsider; block ball

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Date	Sunday, August 12, 1866
Text	[A question to the editor:] In the match-game Empire vs. Eagle the Eagles were skunked the first inning, and the first two strikers on the Empire side were out when Williamson went to the bat and made his third-base on a ball passed by the catcher; he ran home, but the ball was stopped by the crowd, and he was touched out by the pitcher on the home-base. Was the umpire correct in deciding him out, as he would have had plenty of time had some outsider not stopped the ball? [answer:] When a ball is stopped by an outsider, it is not in play until settled in the hands of the pitcher. In this case, had any other fielder touched Williamson, he would not have been out; but as it was the pitcher, he was.
Source	New York Sunday Mercury
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Submitted by	Richard Hershberger
Origin	Initial Hershberger Clippings

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