Clipping:Minimum outfield fence distance
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Date | Wednesday, November 26, 1884 |
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Text | [reporting on the NL annual meeting] No home run can be made on a ball hit over a fence less than 210 feet from the home base, and if the fence is not the required distance the base-runner is entitled to only two bases. This rule was so amended as to legislate the Chicago right-field fence iniquity out of existence. With a fence only 196 feet from the plate that team was enabled to make about 127 home runs this season to the manifest advantage of the club and individual averages. |
Source | Sporting Life |
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Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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