Clipping:A ball blocked by the crowd
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| Date | Friday, September 2, 1859 |
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| Text | [Eckford vs. Empire 8/26/1859] Snyder was somewhat singularly put out in the third innings. He had made his first base, and the ball, thrown by short stop to first base, being missed by , was stopped by the crowd, who were within a few yards of the base. Snyder, thinking the ball had gone by them ran for his second base, but Gough had the ball before he got there. Pidgeon made a special appeal to the Umpire, who decided Snyder out, remarking that he had nothing to do with the action of the crowd. P. O’Brien, however, when Umpire in a match between the Excelsior and Neosho Clubs, in a similar case, decided that the ball had to go to the pitcher first. Rule 22 states, that a player taking a ball from a person not engaged in the game, the player running the bases cannot be put out unless the ball goes to the pitcher first. It is impossible for a ball to have a free course to travel when the grounds are surrounded by such crowds as are usually present on these occasions, and due allowance should be made for such cases as are unavoidable; but when a ball is touched, or wilfully stopped by an outsider, it ought certainly to go the pitcher first, and the Umpire is the sole judge of the case, and should decide accordingly, as we think he has to do so. |
| Source | Porters Spirit of the Times |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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