Clipping:Rules suggestions from the peanut gallery
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| Date | Wednesday, November 23, 1887 |
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| Text | [reporting the joint rules committee meeting 11/15/1885] The suggestions of Umpires Powers, Daniels, Doescher, President Young, Henry Chadwick and The Sporting Life local [i.e. Pittsburgh] representative were then received and the majority laid aside for future consideration. They were as follows: --Umpire Doescher, to call a base-runner out for “cutting a base” without an appeal from the field captain, and to change men whenever the field captain saw fit. Umpire Daniels, to change the batter's box to twelve inches from the home plate. Umpire Powers, that a fly ball be held two seconds, or momentarily, in order to be called an out; also, to make imperative the definite arrangement of the batting order before the game is called, so as to guard against trouble when two men are down on the score-card for the same position; from President Young, to do away with the base on balls base hit and bunt ball question; from The Sporting Life local representative, to give a base-runner a stolen base when he leaves his base the moment a fly ball is caught, and reaches the next. Some of these suggestions were brought up as the rules were considered, but the majority were discussed at the close. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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