Clipping:Abolishing the intentionally dropped third strike

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Date	Wednesday, November 24, 1886
Text	[reporting on the joint rules committee meeting 11/17/1886] The batter is out on the fourth strike (no matter what becomes of the ball) at any time when first base be occupied and two hands be not out. The object of this rule is to end all chance at trickery on the part of the catcher to produce a double play and to relieve the umpire in such cases of the responsibility of deciding whether the ball was purposely dropped or not. Of course, if first base be not occupied or if two hands be out there would be nothing gained by a muff of the fourth strike, and in such cases the ball must be held to put the batter out. The Sporting Life November 24, 1886 Captain John Ward, of the New York nine, said that the rule regarding the four-strike system was drawn by him and has been muddled in the papers... The Philadelphia Times November 28, 1886
Source	Sporting Life
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Submitted by	Richard Hershberger
Origin	Initial Hershberger Clippings

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