Clipping:Scoring an error on the dropped third strike
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| Date | Saturday, August 24, 1878 |
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| Text | [from answers to correspondents] A bets that the first muff should not be counted as an error for the catcher, on the ground that he saved himself by putting the batsman out before any base was made or any advantage accrued to the opposing nine in consequence of his muff. Who wins? ... It was a chance offered for an out, and it was not accepted. The second chance offered is on a new play, and therefore the error counts. New York Clipper August 24, 1878 Nolan expelled; the arbitrariness of expulsion The expulsion of Nolan by the Indianapolis Club last week calls attention to the irregularity of the penalties inflicted by the League Association rules for violation of its laws. If a player be guilty of the grossest act of rascality known to ball-playing–such as willfully selling a game out and out–he is very properly expelled, and prevented from being employed by any reputable professional club; but, if he be guilty simply of some act of insubordination, the penalty of expulsion is applied as in the case of the dishonest player. This is not justice. Here is the case of Nolan, for instance. ... Nolan’s offence, which elicited his expulsion, was his leaving the club in the lurch at Providence under a false plea. This may have deserved dismissal, with forfeit of salary, but it did not merit the extreme penalty of expulsion. There ought to be a distinction made, classifying the penalties according to the offense made, leaving expulsion, with its consequence of being thrown of professional employment, as the severest penalty known to the Association laws, and only to be applied in the case of actual dishonesty. New York Clipper August 24, 1878 |
| Source | New York Clipper |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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