Clipping:Head first versus feet first sliding; blocking the bag

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Date	Saturday, August 9, 1890
Text	There isn't as much head-first sliding into second base as there used to be. The reason is well known to members of the profession. A head-first slide is meat for a good second baseman. He asks nothing better. They are easy to block off. A second baseman will stand right in the path on a head-first slide in such a way that he will prevent him reaching the base. He has nothing to fear, for if the runner comes in contact with him it will not be his legs that will suffer, but the runner's neck or head. With feet-first sliders it is different. The plates hurt like sixty, and no second baseman is looking for the worst of it. There is no attempt at a block when a runner comes down to the base with the iron plates of his shoes pointed for the bag.
Source	Sporting Life
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Submitted by	Richard Hershberger
Origin	Initial Hershberger Clippings

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