Clipping:Where to place extra fielders
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| Date | Sunday, May 19, 1872 |
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| Text | [Knickerbocker First Nine against a Field of fifteen players 5/17/1872] ...the crowd of fifteen fielders got in each other’s way so much that the nine were enabled to run up the score of 19 on 3 runs earned. When a field party exceeds the regular number of nine the following rules should be observed in placing the field: When ten men play, of course the tenth man goes to right short. When eleven play, then the extra man is placed between second-base and centre-field, the latter player being sent out further for long balls. When twelve men take the field, then the two extra men take positions in the out-field so as to capture short high balls beyond the reach of the in-field and not far enough out for the out-fielders. In such a case two of the three out-fielders are sent out further to catch long high balls. When the field exceeds twelve, then the extra men are placed on foul-ball ground, back of first and third base. Unless an arrangement like this is made, the players are only in each other’s way. |
| Source | New York Sunday Mercury |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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