Clipping:A sacrifice bunt up the first base line
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| Date | Saturday, July 25, 1874 |
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| Text | [Boston vs. Mutual 7/14/1874] [The Mutuals leading 6-3 after four innings] This should have been a winning position, which it did not turn out to be. In the next inning the “Reds” recovered their lost vantage-ground in the highest style of the art, and they gave the New Yorkers a lesson in scientific batting and base-running which it would be worth their while to remember. ... [two runs had scored, with no outs, when] Harry Wright then came to the bat, and, seeing three men on the bases, he wisely dropped a ball from his bat so that it ran towards Start [first baseman], and before Joe could put the striker out another run had been scored, and the base-runners had been sent forward each a base, no chance being given for any doubling-up process. This was scientific play, and it elicited a buzz of admiration from the crowd. ...the Reds not caring about being put out at first-base, so long as every such out yielded also a run in. New York Clipper July 25, 1874 Bob Ferguson switch hitter; batting left side against a lefty pitcher [Atlantic vs. Mutual 7/18/1874] Ferguson, however, did as he should always do when facing Matthews, viz., took his bat in his left hand–he can use both hands with equal facility–and for the first time he made a base-hit... New York Clipper July 25, 1874 |
| Source | New York Clipper |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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