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Date Tuesday, September 17, 1889
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A dozen clubs have been crippled because of their best men catching their feet or shoe spikes in the or under the bags. McAleer was crippled in this way. If the bases were all like the home plate—flat and flush with the ground—and the runners allowed to overrun all bases just as they now do first base, the chances for such injuries would be reduced to a minimum. The sawdust base-bags should be shelved at once. Besides hurting the players who slide into them, they spoil pretty plays by reason of the ball striking them and bounding awkwardly. The flat rubber base would remedy this falut also. St., quoting the Chicago Tribune

Source St. Louis Republic
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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
Origin Initial Hershberger Clippings

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