Clipping:An incorrect interpretation of force plays

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Date Thursday, August 8, 1878
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[from answers to correspondents] A man is on first base. The batter hits a grounder to first baseman, who picks it up, touches his base, and then fields it to second to cut off a runner. Is the runner allowed to return to first, and must he be touched with the ball to put out, or must he continue on toward second, having been forced off first? [answer:] The runner at first is forced off that base as soon as the batter bats a fair ball, and can not return. If the second baseman holds the ball on second before the runner gets there the runner is out.

Source Cincinnati Enquirer
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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
Origin Initial Hershberger Clippings

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