Clipping:Spectators on the field
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| Date | Friday, May 18, 1877 |
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| Text | A better system of police should be adopted. The crowd should not be allowed to fill up the field while the last inning is being played, and to pass back of the pitcher continually on the way to the gate. Indianapolis News May 18, 1877 the umpire disallows an intentionally dropped third strike; quadruple play? [Boston vs. Indianapolis 5/18/1877] [bases loaded with no outs] Brown had three strikes and missed, and, the catcher, trapping the ball, touched the home plate and fielded to the third; Warner sent it hot to second, and from second to first, and the boys came marching in, under the impression there had been a beautiful triple, or rather quadruple play, as Brown, instead of running to first, dropped his bat and walked off to one side. The umpire, Thomas Titus, of Paterson, N.J., decided none out, but Brown clung to his decision, notwithstanding a fifteen-minutes' kick from the Hoosiers. The decision was a doubtful one, and rested entirely upon whether Flint caught the ball or not. The Bostons objected to changing the umpire, and finally the Indianapolis director ordered their men to resume play, preferring to lose the game rather than be given the name of kickers on their own ground. Brown [was] held to be out, and White, O'Rourke and Sutton kept their bases... Cincinnati Enquirer May 19, 1877 [Boston vs. Indianapolis 5/18/1877] [bases loaded with no outs] Brown came to the bat, struck three times, and on the last strike Flint muffed the ball purposely, touched the plate, passed the ball to third and around the diamond to first, thereby making a beautiful triple play. But this wooden umpire from the east surprised the players and crowd by calling the striker out on strikes, when fairly the three men on bases were out. Captain Mack refused to continue the game, but after a great deal of talking on the part of manager Wright and the directors of the Blues the game was continued, and the red legs who filled the bases were left there at the end of the inning. Indianapolis Sentinel May 19, 1877 |
| Source | Indianapolis News |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
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