Clipping:A batter now must take his turn or be out

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Date Sunday, December 20, 1868
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The amendment putting a player out who fails to take his regular turn at the bat, unless for good cause, is a good one. Before, a captain had it in his power to play a point in a close game. For instance, suppose the opposing nine had played their last inning and had scored 20, and your nine had obtained 19, with two hands out and a man on the third base; and suppose that the striker whose turn it was at the bat was a poor one, and almost certain to bat out, and that the next one to him was a sure bat and just as certain to make a base, what was there to prevent the absence of the weak bat and the substitution of the strong one? Now, this point cannot be played. Another this, too; before, a player running the bases, if a poor runner, could get a man to run for him who was a better runner; now, this cannot be done.

Source New York Sunday Mercury
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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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