Clipping:A runner hit by the batted ball is not necessarily obstruction

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Date	Saturday, June 21, 1873
Text	[Athletic vs. Boston 6/14/1874]...in deciding Schafer out for accidentally stopping a hard-hit bounding ball at right short...while it is the rule to regard as willful all obstruction of a fielder by a base runner or other opponent of the contesting nine–in the meaning of the rules–which could have been readily avoided, it odes not follow that a base-runner should be given out for not getting out of the way of a ball because it happens to hit him. In this case it was so plainly an accident–Schafer not even seeing the ball–that it was surprising the umpire should have regarded it as willful, especially as the ball bounded against the back of Schafer’s hip.
Source	New York Clipper
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Submitted by	Richard Hershberger
Origin	Initial Hershberger Clippings

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