Clipping:Dropped balls while attempting to tag the runner

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Date	Saturday, January 10, 1880
Text	In regard to the rule which obliges a base-player to hold the ball after touching a base-runner, the experience of 1879 was dead against the retention of it. More quarrels arose from this cause than any other. The rule simply offers the base-runner a premium to collide with the base-player in order to knock the ball out of his hand. It is unfair in every way. Under the old rule, which gave the runner out if he was touched by the ball in the hands of the base-player, whether the ball was held afterwards or not, it might happen occasionally that the fielder would not be able to hold the ball; but as a general rule the decisions were fair. It is the very reverse in the rule of 1879, for in three out of four of the instances in which the ball was not held the runner was legitimately touched, and yet he unjustly escaped being put out.
Source	New York Clipper
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Submitted by	Richard Hershberger
Origin	Initial Hershberger Clippings

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