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a disagreement over the rules to use
| Date | Monday, October 5, 1857 |
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| Text | October 5, 1857 A CHALLENGE! The members of the Massapoag Base Ball Club, of Sharon, hereby challenge the members of the Union Club, of Medway, to a Match Game of base Ball, to take place on Boston Common, on Saturday, Oct. 17, or on any other day they appoint during the present month. The game to be the best three in five, of 25 tallies each. The rules to be the same as governed the late match between the two clubs. Per order of Massapoag Base Ball Club, DANIEL MAHONY, Sec'y, Sharon, Oct. 5, 1867 ~ ~ ~ October 9, 1857 Challenge Accepted. The Members of the Union Base Ball Club, of Medway, hereby accept the Challenge of the members of the Massapoag Base Ball Club, of Sharon, to a Match Game of Base Ball, on Boston Common—Time, Saturday, Oct. 31, 9 o'clock A.M. They, however, claim the customary right of choice of regulations, which they would exercise in regard to Bases as follows, viz: The number of Bases to be five, instead of four; the fifth or home base being the batters' stand, which shall be 40 feet (instead of 12 feet) from the first base; the distance from the fourth to the fourth to the fifth base to be also 40 feet—thus restoring the game to its full and original condition. Per order of the Union Base Ball Club, DANIEL HAMMOND, Sec'y. Medway, Oct. 8, 1857. ~ ~ ~ October 19, 1857 To the Union Base Ball Club, of Medway. A few weeks since we received a Challenge from you to play of Game of Base Ball, the best three in five–”with {to quote your own language} the same rules and regulations to govern the game which governed your {our} recent game with the Olympic Club, of Boston, when you {we} won the championship.” Claiming no right, as the challenged party, to alter the game, because you challenged us to play a certain game, with specified rules, we promptly accepted your challenge, knowing no alternative but to do so or decline. The game was played, and you won the best three in five. We recently challenged you to play a return game, with the same rules and regulations that governed the game that you won—You answer that you accept the challenge; and you then claim the right, as the challenged party, to prescribe the rules and regulations to govern the game, adding tht the rules which you propose “will restore the game to its original conditions.”* We do not consider your answer to the challenge an acceptance of our challenge. We believe that according to common usage, if challenged by the losing party, the winning party is in honor bound to play a return game, with the same rules and regulations, to take the alternative, and back square down. In view of the course which you have seen fit to pursue, self respect imposes upon us the necessity of withdrawing the challenge. *We are a little curious to learn your authority for the above statement. Per order of the Massagoag Base Ball Club. DANIEL MAHONY, Secretary. Sharon, October 14, 1857 |
| Source | Boston Herald |
| Tags | Rules |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
assessment of the new rules; proposal for eleven on a side
| Date | Saturday, March 13, 1858 |
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| Text | Some of the rules [from the 1857 convention] are said to be especially unpopular with the tyros–that of giving more than one man out, if the second man is not protected back to his base. This rule of the game has proven rather sharp practice, as the lawyers for the youngsters, and they don’t like it. Another, which is to be taken up for discussion is, that a player can only be caught out by a fair ball on the fly. The rule which determines the game by innings, works well, and will be retained, and a strong effort will be made to have eleven fielders on each side. We expect that all these important questions will receive due consideration at the hands of the Second Convention of Ball-players. |
| Source | Porter's Spirit of the Times |
| Tags | Rules |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
Bound Rule and Foul Balls
| Date | Saturday, June 16, 1866 |
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| Text | JEFFERSON, Washington.-- "1. A ball in being delivered by the pitcher to the batsman strikes the ground in front of the home base, and is struck by the batsman on the bound. Is the ball fair or foul providing it goes in the field? 2. A ball is struck in the same manner as in first question, but strikes behind the home base. Is it out if caught on the first bound from the bat, it having bounded before being struck?"......1. If it strikes the ground, when so hit, in front of the base, it is fair. A ball striking the ground as you describe should be called a "ball." 2. Yes. |
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| Submitted by | D. Rader |
Description of Balk Rule
| Date | Saturday, June 17, 1865 |
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| Text | MENKEN, Lockport, N.Y. -- "Can a pitcher move in his position before a ball is delivered provided both of his feet are inside the lines of his position when the ball is delivered?" .... Yes; except when a player is running his bases, where all movements looking like attempts to deliver the ball are considered baulks. |
| Source | New York Clipper |
| Tags | Rules, Balk |
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| Submitted by | D. Rader |
Home Run scoring, Baulk rules, Balls and Strikes, and Legal Pitching
| Date | Saturday, June 16, 1866 |
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| Text | "1. In making a home run does it count as such if the ball enters the infield before the home base is reached? 2. Does the raising of the pitcher's heel or side of one of his feet constitute a baulk? 3. Is motion of a pitcher attempting to throw to a base and then pitching the ball to the striker a baulk? 5. Does not the refusal of a striker to strike at balls within his legitimate reach, no matter if they are not exactly where he wishes them, if on the side on which heis accostomed to strike, entitle the umpire to call strikes? 6. Has the pitcher in pitching a right to swing his arm out from his side at least a foot and a half? 7. Can a pitcher take one or two steps before he delivers the ball?" .......1. We score a home run when the batsman makes a hit to the outerfield, and runs round from home to home without being obliged to stop on any base to avoid being put out, no matter whether the ball overtakes him at the home base or not. But the run must be made from a ball hit past the outer fields. 2. The pitcher must keep both feet on the ground in making the swing of the arm in delivering the ball. 3. No--but the attempt to deliver and then throw to the base is. 4. Certainly not. The umpire should call "balls" and not "baulks." 5. Yes, as a general thing. But if the striker is in the habit of striking at a low ball, he can require a low one pitched to him. 6. Unless the pitcher keeps a straight arm it is a throw. Custom also requires that his arm swing as near the perpendicular as possible. 7. He can take no steps at all. He must stand with both feet squarely on the ground and within the lines of his position, or he commits a baulk. |
| Source | New York Clipper |
| Tags | Rules, Balk, Balls and Strikes, Home Run, Batting |
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| Submitted by | D. Rader |
Putting runner out after a fly out
| Date | Saturday, June 17, 1865 |
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| Text | PIP. -- "In playing base ball (fly game) can a person running from one base to another be put out directly after a fly catch, or must the ball be first settled in the hands of the pitcher before he can be put out, as in case of a foul ball?" ...... He can be put out without the ball being first settled in the hands of the pitcher; and he can make his next base the moment after the ball has been caught. |
| Source | New York Clipper |
| Tags | Rules |
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| Submitted by | D. Rader |
Returning to Your Base After Foul Ball is Live Again
| Date | Saturday, June 16, 1866 |
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| Text | E.H.P., Chillicothe, O.--"If in playing base ball the ball is struck and the man on 1st base runs and makes 2d base, and attempts the 3d when the ball is declared foul and he in running too gain 1st base again runs partly across the field without touching 2d base and gets to 1st base before the ball: is he out?".......He must in returning touch every base, and if he fails to do so then he is out if the ball is held on the base he has to return to before he reaches it on his return. |
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| Submitted by | D. Rader |
Scorekeeping Question and Answer
| Date | Saturday, June 16, 1866 |
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| Text | S.A. Jacobs, Eire, Penn.--"When the striker hits a ball to the short stop, and the short stop takes the ball and puts it to the first base and the batter is put out, who gets the credit, the short stop throwing the ball or the baseman that holds it?" .......If it is a sharply hit ball the short stop deserves the credit; but if it is a poorly hit ball and muffed in the field, and badly thrown to the baseman, and yet he hold it in turn, then the 1st baseman. We always put down in our score book the name -- or rather the figure indicating the name -- of the player who fields the ball to the baseman; but in the records of "how put out," the credit of the out goes to the fielder last handling the ball, namely, the baseman. |
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| Tags | Rules, Statistics, Fielding |
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| Submitted by | D. Rader |
Tie Goes to the Runner; Legal Substitutions
| Date | Saturday, July 28, 1866 |
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| Text | C.S.G., Pulaski. – “1. In playing base ball a player is running to 1st base and gets there at the same time that the ball does; that is, so you cannot perceive any difference. Which has the preference, the runner or the ball? 2. After a match game has begun has the captain any right to change the position of his men?”….. 1. The ball has no preference, but the ball must be held on the base before the striker reaches it or he is not out. 2. Certainly he has. |
| Source | New York Clipper |
| Tags | Rules, Umpires and Umpiring |
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| Submitted by | D Rader |