View source for Clipping:Home plate and the batter's box to be outside the foul lines

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|Type of Date=Day
|Date=1/3/1875
|Title=home plate and the batter's box to be outside the foul lines
|Text=<p>Among the amendments to the rules likely to be presented for adoption next spring is one placing the home base outside the foul ball lines, and with it the lines of the striker’s position, so as to make all hits close to the base, which, under the existing rule, the umpire finds it difficult to decide plainly fair or foul.  New York Sunday Mercury January 3, 1875</p>
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<p>In reference to placing the home base in a new position, there appears to be everything in favor of the change.  At present the meeting of the foul ball lines at the home base now makes them intersect the centre of the base.  By the new rule the base is placed outside the lines, and with it the lines of the striker’s position are set back eight inches, so that the front line of position does not, as now, cross the foul ball line.  This will make it difficult to make any of the class of fair-foul hits except those which plainly strike the ground in front of the foul lines, all such doubtful balls as are now hit being made plainly foul by the new position of the base.  New York Sunday Mercury January 10, 1875</p>
|Source=New York Sunday Mercury
|Submitted by=Richard Hershberger
|Origin=Initial Hershberger Clippings
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