Clipping:Cutting corners while base running
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| Date | Saturday, May 21, 1881 |
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| Text | [Boston vs. Chicago 5/20/1881] [Kelly on second] Anson made a hit to Burdock, and the latter threw it to Deasley, putting him out. While the umpire was watching the play Kelly stole home across the diamond, without going within 20 feet of third, and scored a run which won the game. It was a deliberate steal, but the umpire did not see it. It was no credit to Chicago to win the game in such a manner. Boston Herald May 21, 1881 There is probably but one player in the profession who can run home from the second base while a man is being put out at first, and that man is Kelly of the Chicagos. He does it by skipping across the diamond, with the umpire looking in another direction. It is a feat he feels proud of. Boston Herald May 22, 1881 Any one who read the description of the way in which the Chicago-Boston game of last Friday was lost to the Bostons will recognize at once the system of playing favored and petted by the Chicago management. To get a run honestly if a man can, but get a run, is the policy of that club as laid down by its president. It is not a policy that commends itself to honest people. If a game is not to be won on its merits, but is to be stolen, then base ball will degenerate as it deserves. Boston Herald May 22, 1881 [Chicago vs. Boston 9/16/1881] Anson sent the ball to Burdock, who fielded him out at first by clean work, but in the meantime Kelly ran clean from second base to the home-plate. How he did it was a mystery to those who were not watching him. He did it by simply resorting to his favorite dastardly trick of watching his opportunity when the umpire's attention is turned in another direction, and then running across the diamond and home without touching the third base. Yesterday he did not go within 10 feet of the base, in this case, according to the testimony of scores who were watching him, and of Sutton and Barnes to the writer after the game. The ball was fielded to Sutton, and the umpire's attention was called to Kelly's action, but he refused to give him out on the ground, probably, that he did not see him pass the base. Boston Herald September 17, 1881 |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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