Clipping:Foul tip outs eliminated
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| Date | Wednesday, November 28, 1888 |
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| Text | [reporting on the joint rules committee meeting 11/19/1888] When the foul ball question was reached there was quite a discussion on the proposed amendment to do away with the injustice of putting the batsman out on a foul-hit ball, which afforded him no chance for the compensating advantage of gaining a base, as in the case of a fair-hit ball. It was finally decided to compromise matters by removing the out on a foul fly catch in all cases in which the catch was made within a radius of ten feet from home base. This, of course, does away with the fly tip catch, and with catches of high foul balls which fall into the hands of the catcher near the home base. It was decided, too, to allow the base-runner running from one base to another on a foul ball to return to the base he left without his being put out, as he hitherto has been on a fly catch of a foul ball. It was doubly unjust to punish a runner who had earned first base by a hit for the fault of the batsman in hitting a foul ball. The Sporting Life November 28, 1888 [N.B. The rule actually provided no out on a foul ball “not rising above the batsman's head and caught by the catcher playing within ten feet of the home base...”] [from an unidentified member of the rules committee] Among other arguments in favor of abolishing the foul tip, was that it would tend to lighten the work of the umpire. Nearly every member of the joint committee could recall games which had been won or lost during the past season by an umpire either not hearing, or hearing when there had been none, a foul tip. If he misses one now which has been made, or calls one which has not been made, the chances are that the entire audience will not rise up and call him blessed, unless it happens to be the third strike that is called a tip or a tip that is call the third strike. The Sporting Life December 5, 1888 |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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