Clipping:The catcher should not play too close to the batter

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Date Sunday, August 1, 1858
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...it would look far more manly, and save an immense amount of time, if the catcher, when a player is on his first base, would not stand quite so close to the bat, for the purpose, as he thinks, of preventing the player from making his second base. In nineteen cases out of twenty, it is a losing game to the side out, as, through the excitement, the ball either passes the catcher, or is thrown widely to the second base, giving the opposite player every chance to make an ace, and, as I before observed, lengthening the game unnecessarily.

Source New York Sunday Mercury
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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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