Clipping:Tagging a runner out and dropping the ball-field
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| Date | Sunday, January 27, 1878 |
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| Text | [reviewing the new rules] Last season considerable disputing was occasioned by the indefinite wording of the rule governing the action of the base player in touching a base runner when off the base, it being a matter of doubt whether the runner was out or not out when the ball was knocked out of the base player's hands in the collision which so frequently ensued in the playing of the point in question. … According to the amended rul no base runner can be put out by being touched by a base player or fielder while off his base, except the latter retain full possession of the ball after touching the runner. If, in the collision, the ball be knocked out of the fielder's hand, the base runner escapes being put out. The objection to this amendment is that it offers a premium to base runners to collide with base players purposely to prevent their holding the ball. |
| Source | Brooklyn Eagle |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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