Clipping:Ground rules for a large crowd; clearing the spectators off the field

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Date Tuesday, July 6, 1880
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[Providence vs. Chicago 7/4/1880] The crowd was so great that special ground-rules had to be provided, in the case of balls being knocked out of reach of the players one base only being allowed for balls going into the right or left field crowds, and all the player could make if he hit to centre field. When the time came for the game to commence, the crowd was scattered all over the diamond, and it took half a dozen special police with the eighteen ball-tossers half an hour to get them into some shape so as to leave room for the players. And as it was, they were within ten feet of the third base.

Source Chicago Times
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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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