Clipping:Umpire relying on the probity of the player
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| Date | Sunday, September 6, 1868 |
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| Text | [Atlantics vs. Athletics 8/31/1868] Pearce led off on the Atlantic side with a hot grounder, which was too quick in its movements for Reach, and Dick earned his base. In trying to run to second, however, he was captured by Reach from a pretty throw by Radcliffe... Dick did not think he was out; but as Reach appealed, and the Colonel [Fitzgerald, the umpire] well knew that “Al” is too square a man to appeal except he thinks he has put his man out, the Colonel promptly decided him out. The tricky men who are constantly appealing even when they know the player is not out too frequently overreach themselves, as umpires, when appealed to by men of this tricky style of play, pay no regard to their movements, and the result is that men are sometimes given in who are really out. Fair play is the best policy at all times, besides being the manliest. |
| Source | New York Sunday Mercury |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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