Clipping:Late questions about force plays
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| Date | Saturday, June 19, 1875 |
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| Text | [from answers to correspondents] When there is a man on first-base, and the man at the bat hits a ball to the infield, is it only necessary to have the ball at second base before the runner from first base gets to second, and to the first base before the runner gets there, to retire him at first base? Or is it necessary that the runner from first base to second must be touched by the second baseman? … It is only necessary to hold the ball while touching the base. New York Clipper June 19, 1875 [from answers to correspondents] Dixey, Little rock.-- Base-runner on second base, and another on first, as the ball is delivered to the striker. The man on first runs to second, touching the base; the man on second runs within ten feet of the third. I have the ball on third—do I (playing third) have to touch him, or is it a forced run, or can the man, after having touched second, return to first? … The player running to third was not forced off, and had to be touched to be put out. The player who touched second had to right to hold that base until the man at second running to third had touched third. New York Clipper June 19, 1875 [from answers to correspondents] Constant Reader, Baltimore.-- In the game of base-ball between the Washington and New Haven nines, in Baltimore, one of the Washington nine was on the first and one on the second base; the one that was on the first ran the one that was on second off; the one that was on the second was caught between the second and third; the third-baseman got the ball and touched his base. The umpire decided him out. Was he right? … The player running to third, not being forced off, had to be touched while off a base before he could be legally put out. New York Clipper June 19, 1875 [from answers to correspondents] A is on 1st base (running); B, at the bat, bats the ball to pitcher, who fields it to 1st, putting B out. 1 st-baseman throws to 2d, the ball getting there before A. Is A out? 2d-baseman fails to touch him. … A is not out. Noting forced off, he should have been touched while off the base. New York Clipper July 10, 1875 |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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