Clipping:The pitcher isn't expected to cover first base; bunted balls?

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Date Saturday, February 25, 1871
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Joe [Start] ... knows how far to leave his base to field a ball, which is something all first basemen are not posted in. In regard to this point, it is now known that there is a certain kind of ball just hit quietly along the ground to the centre of a triangle formed by the positions of the pitcher, first baseman and second baseman at right short field, which almost invariably gives first base to an active runner, simply because it is a ball which tempts the first base player to try and field it himself, and all but old hands get trapped by it. Last season we saw E. Mills and other noted first base players try to field such short balls, and in nearly every case they failed. Joe Start judges these balls admirably, and leaves them to the pitcher or second baseman to field to him unless they happen to come within a certain distance which he knows he can get to and back before the batsman can travel from home to first.

Source New York Clipper
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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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