View source for Clipping:Striking a pitch in the dirt

{{Clipping
|Type of Date=Day
|Date=9/11/1875
|Title=striking a pitch in the dirt
|Text=<p>[from answers to correspondents]  ...the first ball delivered is bowled in and the striker (standing within the lines of his position) hits it as it bounds toward him, and, before short-stop can field it, makes his first base.  The umpire rules that the striker is entitled to his base, and, upon the [fielding] club refusing to continue the game, decided int in favor of [the batting club] 9 to 0.  Is the ruling correct?  … Yes.</p>
|Source=New York Clipper
|Submitted by=Richard Hershberger
|Origin=Initial Hershberger Clippings
}}