Clipping:Evaluating the fly game; 'amateurs' a derogatory term
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| Date | Monday, July 18, 1864 |
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| Text | [Excelsior vs. Enterprise 7/16/1864] On the Enterprise side in fielding the play was such as fully to illustrate the fact that well taken bound balls, in the in-field, in a fly game are just as effectual in aiding to put out players as in the bound game, the only different being that in the former they are credited as good catches, while in the latter only as good stops. Each of the three players put out by Flynn at 1st base, in the first innings, were from balls previously caught on the bound and afterwards sent to 1st base, two of them being well taken by W. Murtha and the other by Pearsall. No less than seven bound catches were made in the game, which similarly resulted in players being put out at the bases; and besides these there were fourteen other bound catches made, all of which put players out, being from foul balls. In fact, out of twenty-six bound catchers, which would have counted in a bound game, twenty-one were the cause of putting p layers out in this fly game. These facts speak for themselves, and are strong arguments in favor of a style of play that will eventually mark the rules of the game, unless mere amateurs continue to be in the majority, as they are now, in the list of delegates to the convention. |
| Source | Brooklyn Eagle |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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