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|Title=umpire giving too many warnings, should call balls ...ng out to him to “get them down” or to “pitch lower,” should promptly call balls. In regard to strikes, more latitude is allowed, no strike being permitted

...times, and not a chance for a catch was missed at right field, as no high balls were sent there off the swift pitching. For a swift pitcher, delivering on

|Title=umpires not calling balls; strikes should be called only if batter wilfully refusing to strike ...ng out to him to “get them down” or to “pitch lower,” should promptly call balls. In regard to strikes, more latitude is allowed, no strike being permitted

|Title=scoring base on balls as an error ...L first adopted scoring rules in 1877.] It is section 7 of rule 70 of the playing rules which says: “An error should be given for each misplay which allows

...ertisement) JOHN C. WHITING, 87 FULTON STREET, N. Y., manufacturer of BASE BALLS and Wholesale and Retail Dealer in everything appertaining to BASE BALL and ...Greater New York City area playing the game, providers of playing grounds, playing manuals, and equipment sprang up.</p>

|Headline=Book Includes Hermit's Promise to Bring Children "Bats, Balls &c" ...n playing ball games approved of their play and promised 'to provide bats, balls, &amp;c' at his next visit."</p>

...hin two feet of the plate, or to call balls that were properly strikes bad balls. After the game the crowd jumped over into the field, and the private watc

|Headline=Egyptian Tomb Inscriptions Show Bats, Balls ...t=<p>Wall inscriptions in Egyptian royal tombs depict games using bats and balls.</p>

|Title=a player dishonorably working a base on balls? ...o obtain his base in that manner. There is an honorable and honest way of playing ball, and a dishonorable, tricky style. We must say that we prefer the for

|Headline=Baltimore school boys urged to stop playing bandy ...1, urges school boys to stop playing bandy in the streets, as their struck balls endanger passers by. Otherwise, the police will have to put a stop to it.</

...laying field, so that it was found necessary to make an agreement that all balls hit to the fence should be only two-base hits.</p>

|Title=playing for a release 2 ...ompetition is very likely to enhance their salaries. The only way to deal with determined obstinacy and willful misplaying is to fine, suspend or expel.</

|Headline=Teen Makes White Leather Balls for British Officers' Ball-Playing ...icked and gamed much.&nbsp; One amusement in which they indulged much, was playing at ball.&nbsp; A Ball-Alley was fitted up at the Court-House, where some of

...lders will be able to consolidate their forces so as to secure more ground-balls than they did before.</p>

|Title=wasting time looking for foul balls ...ime was consumed in waiting for the ball to be brought in than was used in playing the game...</p>

|Title=pitching unfair balls ...as an attractive feature of the game, than half-a-dozen catches from high balls hopped up nearly even the pitcher's head, or from tips from foul ball, both

...mparatively few score an error to the pitcher for giving a base on “called balls,” although the book of rules expressly provides that it shall be so score

|Headline=Irish Soldiers play ball with Rebel shells ...the Hibernian Guard actually stacked their arms and commenced playing ball with the six pounders that the enemy sent among them, tossing them about as cool

...introduced several new points of play at second base while in this city. With a man on first base he always played close up to the base line. If the bal

...al to a proposal to return to straight-arm pitching; reduce the number of balls for a walk ...of decreased latitude in the number of balls than in any foolish tinkering with the rules governing the style of delivery.</p>

|Title=uniform rules under the National Agreement; official balls ...under these rules. This is done so as to prevent the use of light or dead balls in games between the clubs of different bodies, a has frequently been the c

|Title=the veterans insist on playing under modified current rules ...d to obey, and the game was played under the present rules, except that no balls or wides were called, as the old-fashioned pitch marked the delivery of the

|Title=catchers playing close to the bat too often ...short from the bat, but the wear and tear of an unnecessary amount of the “playing up close” is indulged by catcher, the incentive generally being because i

|Title=playing without a short stop, the third baseman tries to cover the ground ...t-stop became very noticeable, balls being hit low between 2d and 3d bases with impunity, as it was impossible for Mills to cover the ground.</p>

|Title=reducing the number of balls for a walk |Text=<p>[reporting on the NL convention] The number of called balls was reduced to eight instead of nine, but on what just grounds so limited a

...s. With the abolition of the foul tip, and the reduction of the number of balls allowable, the pitcher has not had the batsman so completely at his mercy,

...th and eighth innings alone, on which five strikes were called, the R.I.'s playing a waiting game.</p>

...oid any appearance of playing a waiting game, by promptly striking at good balls, even if their men are on bases at the time.</p>

...n that in many cases where Bob Ferguson used two balls this season, it was with good effect.</p>

...of Portsmouth, it was discovered that the Baltimores were playing with two balls, the live one for themselves and the dead ball for their competitors. Inte

|Title=interpreting the new pitching rules; all runners advance on a base on balls ...due allowance for accidental inaccuracy when the pitchers tried to send in balls to suit the strikers; but he promptly inflicted the penalty of the law in t

|Title=the composition of balls; illegal balls; skillful batting ...ssociation’s taking some action at the next convention to secure for match playing a perfectly made base ball, which shall give skillful fielding an equal cha

...d of actual facts. A score sheet is now in preparation which will do away with a great deal of the difficulty hitherto surrounding the understanding of th

...ed, picked up and thrown in so as to oblige the batsman to content himself with a single base on a hit on which he had hoped to get at least “three bags. ...run on ground balls, or lives given from failures to get under high short balls, owing to the fielders standing too far out for catches.</p>

...b is in a most prosperous condition, numbering some 300 members, and their playing strength has yet to be seen. New York World April 16, 1867</p> <p>yet more on called balls being dead</p>

|Title=drying the ball with sawdust ...oyable one that we have witnessed this season. Delays were numerous, foul balls knocked by the scre–more than we have ever seen heretofore in a first-cla

...ndments: number of called strikes; no putting runners out on uncaught foul balls, tagging up on foul flies; high and low strike zones</p> ...der and one foot above the ground, that is, includes both “high” and “low” balls. New York Sunday Mercury April 2, 1876</p>

|Headline=Playing the pre-New York Rules Game- 1869 ...served as bases. The principal qualification of the pitcher was to send in balls which could be struck, while fouls were ignored and "tick and catch" was th

...tter, but every now and then a fielder would drop in up to his ankles, and balls that should have been fielded had to be chronicled as base hits.</p> ...d it was only by a liberal use of sawdust that it was got into any kind of playing condition. The infielders had plenty of fun skating around the base lines,

...where in front of the bat and playing him behind the catcher to catch foul balls. We cannot find anything in the rules prohibiting such a course; and there

...y it is not. Nothing can be gained by it. In the end it will injure ball playing more than is thought. It is not only bothersome to the striker, who is kep ...acrificed to swiftness. Second—It annoys the striker by giving him unfair balls, and thereby much prolongs the game. Third—It is a clearly palpable viol

...s, &c.; and it well pays a person to visit the grounds while the clubs are playing. Ball Players Chronicle July 25, 1867</p> ...members of the club, or some of the first nine, have been prohibited from playing, they being over the age allotted to boys allowed to play in the Park. Bal

<p>resulted in favor of the Exercise. The playing of both clubs was very</p> <p>Vigilants, met with an accident by a foul ball striking him in the</p>

...the game was that of considering a player to be only required to attend to balls which came within his reach—that is, if the left-fielder saw a ball going ...xcel in playing points in the outfield, his prompt and accurate returns of balls hit to centrefield which he sent in to send base hurrying the base-runners

...class="Apple-converted-space">&nbsp; </span>They never wait for any bound balls, but if they cannot take them on a fly, would almost as soon lose them.</p>

|Title=using two balls to avoid delays ...practice which might be followed with benefit by other clubs. They use two balls and when one is knocked over the fence the second ball is brought into use

|Title=catchers playing too close to the batter ...but as two to five to those given for long bound-catches and for high foul-balls, and these latter are invariably sacrificed by standing close up behind the

...ned. This lot should not have been considered a portion of the field, and balls struck there should have been decided foul.</p>

|Title=uniform scoring; wild pitches and passed balls and bases on balls; Boston reporters ...ing certain errors in the error column. According to League rules, passed balls and wild pitches are not charged against the players making them in the err

...ancement was done by ghost [imaginary] runners. Terrie Dopp Aamodt reports playing a similar game as an adolescent girl.</p> ...ces=<p><span>C. Bevis, “A Game of Bunt,” in G. Land, </span><em>Growing Up with Baseball</em><span> (UNebraska, 2004), pages 128-130.</span></p>

|Headline=Drawing Shows 1st NJ Artillery Playing Ball Game on a Diamond ...ive side, and reveals little about the game played. There appear to be two balls in play, and one may be served to the batsman in a gentle toss from a soldi

...ng batsmen hit the ball so that the in and outfields might do the decisive playing, would not the effect be desirable?</p> <p>Each batsman shall be entitled to three strikes, two called balls entitling him to take first base.</p>

|Title=interpreting called balls and strikes ...on him, his decisions throughout being thoroughly impartial and consistent with his peculiar definition of the rule.</p>

|Headline=Playing Rules Given for New Britain CT Wicket Ball Match ...noted as differing from Hartford rules: wickets set 75 feet apart, "flying balls only out," no leading, "last [lost]&nbsp; ball to count 4; but the strikers

...sult was to improve the sight of the batsmen wonderfully and to render the playing of a waiting game impossible. Our umpires, one and all, are too easy in th

|Name=First Note of Catcher Playing Close to Batter |Description=<p>"The catcher is expected to catch or stop all balls pitched or thrown home; he will, when a player is running from the first to

|Title=trickery of switching balls ...justice to our boys, I request an insertion of this in The Clipper. Yours with respect., FAIR PLAY.</p>

...t of the peculiar twist on the high balls hit up around third base. These balls must be grabbed and held firmly until they have settled in your hands or th

...resulting from their expulsion from the League for alleged dishonest ball-playing, a resolution was adopted to the effect that the Board of Directors would n ...ed back, number of balls and strikes reduced; putting runners out on foul balls</p>

...he directors, and it is their duty now to give him to understand that such playing will not be tolerated, and if persisted in the rules will be rigidly enforc <p>Nolan, although suffering with a sore arm, pitched a splendid game yesterday. Indianapolis Sentinel Augus

...then made a buckskin cover and stitched it over so nice. Oh, my, how those balls would bounce, and yet they didn’t hurt very bad when hit by them. They we

...from standing grinning at their pitcher and catcher, while they do all the playing.</p>

...ule allowing the pitcher to deliver 11 balls to each batsman. Let six bad balls at the most, give a batsman a base, and stop the warning of “good ball” ...n favor of a return to the old style of straight-arm pitching, adding that with the present curved underhand throwing a base hit is only made by chance. I

|Title=a waiting game for bases on balls ...ed a “waiting game,” and were given their first base seven times on called balls. Philadelphia Sunday Mercury October 10, 1869</p>

...hat the balls was non est, a member of the Osceolas having made a home run with it. As the continuance of the game under these circumstances was impossibl ...d generally even. He assists the catcher to a great degree in taking foul balls, showing remarkable judgment in directing him where to play for the ball.

|Text=<p>"BALL-PLAYING -- Westfield vs. Granville --</p> ...vanquished; or, as our correspondent expresses it, 'the Gibraltar of ball playing is taken.'&nbsp; The Granville players were never beaten before but once, b

...wing to the high water which has flooded the Exposition grounds, rendering playing there out of the question for several days at least, the Alleghenys will le ...ross right field. As a consequence of this it was necessary to keep three balls handy, a dry one ready for use when the one in play was knocked into the wa

...the third hand is out. This rule hold good in cases both of fair and foul balls.</p>

...the easier games of 'one old cat,' 'two old cat,' and 'drive,' played with balls . . . . In such games girls did not join; and the game of cricket, which h

...nged about, coming in nearer or going out further, just as they judged the balls would be sent by the different batters. It is in the lack of judgment like

...cricket is a course of experimental astronomy, and my young master tingles with a faint sense of being a tyrannical Jupiter driving sphere madly from their

...incinnati people, that they could not have gone on without Jones, and that with him they are all right, then they have much success before them, for they h <p>how crooked umpires affect the game; complaint about balls and strikes</p>

...hing; what constitutes effective pitching; batters calling for high or low balls; fooling the umpire</p> ...succeed against his pitching should offset his playing point in this with, with equal judgment in batting, a good umpire being an essential aid to the atta

|Title=more on called balls as dead ...ase Ball Club for violation of section 21 of the Rules and Regulations, in playing Messrs. Wm. Dorsay and D. Clinton, of the Alert club, in a game against the

...escribed in 2010.&nbsp; The game is associated locally with Easter Sunday, with some games played in the dawn light after Easter services.</p> <p>[] baserunners can pick up balls thrown at them and try to plug members of the fielding side</p>

...ed. But there is one thing; pitcher of the Neptune, don&rsquo;t pitch your balls so wild next time.&rdquo;)</p>

...tly around a central mass of India-rubber, and covering the compact sphere with soft, tough leather cut to the proper shape by a shoemaker."</p>

...ls this the &ldquo;city&rdquo;] and back without being plugged. Caught fly balls are worth a point, but a successful run is two points. A time clock governs ...awarded for catches (but not runs?), but notes use of a round stick to hit with and also confirms the use of plugging.&nbsp; Neither account says that runn

...ded" status as an intermediate fate between "out" and "safe" and&nbsp;fair balls hit out of park are just singles.</p> ...part due to efforts from its Swedish neighbors, less than 200 people were playing the American game in 2006."</p>

|Title=Devlin playing in California ...th or weakness. He preserves an unruffled disposition, and the calling of balls and strikes has no effect in irritating or working him up, but serves only

...line and closer to home-base than ordinary, in order to be ready for such balls, kept close to his base and thus enabled Barlow to score a base hit every t

...e League Clubs, in running on foul balls. The Philadelphias claimed to be playing under the professional rules, as adopted by the [rump NA] Convention in Apr

...t Clubs, playing out-door billiards on the green, with painted mallets and balls, large shoe buckles, and a stock of affectation to match.

...or more than eight and a half inches in circumference, and must be covered with leather. 6. The Thrower shall stand thirty-five feet from and on a parallel line with the Striker.

...equipment such as tennis rackets and balls, and softball mitts, bats, and balls, etc."</p>

...s they should, and are not composed of as hardy men as the Mechanics, but, with practice will make a good club.&rdquo;)</p>

.... The only effective delivery is that marked by accuracy of aim, combined with speed and strategic skill. Wild pitching, the result of efforts to obtain

|Title=foul ball dead balls |Text=<p>About the only change of consequence in the playing rules likely to be made will be the abolition of the penalty for running on

...ts from New York and have organized a regular Base Ball Club. We have been playing considerable today and I feel quite fine in consequence."</p> <p>Drummond, along with his Savannah "Chatham Artillery" unit, were captured at Fort Pulaski, outsi

...as good as it ever was, and better, too, but the hitting is harder and the balls for that reason far more difficult to handle without error.</p> ...ning games of 1 to 0, and poor batting is now justly regarded as poor ball-playing.</p>

...were in anything but playing order, did not make his usual effort to stop balls when the bases were unoccupied. New York Sunday Mercury July 10, 1859</p> ...them. When they become a senior club, we should like to see them matched with some of the old fogy clubs at Hoboken, who put on a great many airs, assume

..., for that matter, all professional ball-players, are thoroughly familiar with curve pitching. They are, as a rule, not to be deceived by any curve a pit ...ittle chance to “work” or attempt to deceive a batter. He is allowed four balls to “work” the batsman while getting three strikes. Such being the case

...d were present. &hellip; Some very heavy balls were struck and the general playing was good.&rdquo;)</p>

...broad acres, playing 'one old cat,' and base ball (no scientific games or balls as hard as a white oak boulder in those days) excepted when pressed into se

|Title=playing with eight players ...s occasioned by the absence of players on both sides; the Unions beginning with but eight men, and thus played two innings, when F. Durrell, of the second

...&nbsp; For want of such things, the time of the soldier is mainly spent in playing cards."</p>

...se ball. they have played two match games, the stakes being beer, bats and balls."</p> ...ball game will be part of the Fourth of July celebration, with Eagle Rock playing some unnamed professionals. Same April 17, 1886 carries an ad from a local

|Title=Baseball's ubiquity; Sunday ball playing ...parties thus engaged caused a skedaddle at sight of an officer; bats and balls were often left upon the field to be confiscated, but no arrests were made.

...Three-out-side-out innings and five-inning games are prescribed.&nbsp; The playing field is represented in a figure showing a fair ground of less than 45 degr ...le entails pitching by a member of the batting team, strikes called on all balls that are not hit fair (including pitches not swung at), outs on short fair

...supporting posts so as to give the fielders full sway in running after fly balls. In this game a deadened ball was used and the fielders experienced no dif