Clipping:The orientation of the home plate

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Date Sunday, December 21, 1873
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[from a discussion of proposed rule amendments by Chadwick] ...the home base shall consist of white marble or stone, so fixed on the ground as to be even with the surface, and with one corner of it facing the pitcher’s position. The addition of the words in italics is made so as to insure the pitcher’s having the full width of the home base to pitch over, instead of the one foot of width he would have were the base to be placed with the square side facing him.

Source Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch
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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
Origin Initial Hershberger Clippings

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