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| Date | Wednesday, March 14, 1888 |
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| Text | [reporting on the AA special meeting 3/5] Under the head of base hits, as an amendment to Section 3, Rule 65, the following was adopted: That when a player reaches first base through an error of judgment, such as two fielders allowing the ball to drop between them, the batter shall not be credited with a base hit or the fielder charged with an error, but it shall be scored as an unaccepted chance, and the batter shall be charged with a time at bat. The Sporting Life March 14, 1888 Chadwick on the two umpire system [from Chadwick's column] I did expect to see the League adopt the double umpire system, but a short-sighted policy in regard to the additional outlay incurred prevented them. It is bound to become the rule eventually, as it is the only true solution of the umpire problem. All the League need to have done would have been to have engaged a staff of regular salaried umpires to umpire games behind the bat, and to have appointed a local staff of three umpires from which to select one for each home game, to be paid by the game, these home umpires to act only as judges of the base-running. It is a very unwise policy not to select the very best class of men for the honorable position of umpire of a game that can be had, this class can only be secured at salaries commensurate with the importance of the onerous duties they are called upon to perform. In other words, first-class umpires come high, but you must have them. The Sporting Life March 14, 1888 |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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