Clipping:A disagreement over when a foul ball is live

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Date Sunday, November 1, 1868
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Rogers, editor of the New England Base Ballist, says if a foul ball be caught on the fly that it “must be returned to the pitcher, and he in his position,” before a player running the bases can be put out. Section 3 of Rule 4th says: “No run or base can be made on a foul ball. Such a ball she be considered dead and not in play until it shall first have been settled in the hands of the pitcher.” It will be seen, therefore, that it is not required of the pitcher to be in his position to take the ball after it has been hit “foul,” to place it again in play, and that Mr. Rogers is slightly in error.

Source Philadelphia Sunday Mercury
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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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