Clipping:The extent of the umpire's leeway in calling balls

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Date	Sunday, November 5, 1871
Text	[Chicago vs. Athletic 10/30/1871] The umpire allowed both the pitchers full play for strategy by his failure to punish wide balls. Whatever option an umpire may have in regard to calling balls which are within the batsman’s reach, and yet not over the home-plate or as the batsman calls for, he has no choice but to call every ball which is out of the legitimate reach of the bat, viz., all those balls which are enumerated under the head of “unfair” balls, the rules expressly requiring the umpire to call all such balls “in the order of their delivery.
Source	New York Sunday Mercury
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Submitted by	Richard Hershberger
Origin	Initial Hershberger Clippings

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