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  • Clipping:Bases on balls no longer in the error column
    |Title=bases on balls no longer in the error column ...fest error and cannot be cited as a precedent for a material change in the Playing Rules in the middle of a championship season. By order of the Joint Commit
    1 KB (205 words) - 20:27, 29 February 2020
  • 1862.62
    |Headline=Atlanta Boys harass pedestrians with flying balls ...e Atlanta Southern Confederacy, April 11, 1862, editorializes against ball playing in the city streets:</p>
    907 bytes (130 words) - 10:07, 16 June 2019
  • Clipping:Playing for a base on balls
    |Title=playing for a base on balls ...he sixth with one strike called. His chances in either case for a base on balls is far better than it is in any other way.</p>
    454 bytes (79 words) - 19:46, 29 February 2020
  • Clipping:Scoring bases on balls
    |Title=scoring bases on balls ...en called.” To ignore such time at bat, though he take his base on called balls, or on three strikes not caught, and afterwards scores a run because he doe
    793 bytes (134 words) - 19:45, 29 February 2020
  • Clipping:Young does not credit earned runs on bases on balls
    |Title=Young does not credit earned runs on bases on balls ...it was generally understood by the playing rules committee that a base on balls figured no longer as a factor in an earned run. The Sporting Life May 15,
    1,003 bytes (172 words) - 20:36, 29 February 2020
  • Clipping:The catcher playing close behind the bat
    |Title=the catcher playing close behind the bat ...balls, two of them from fly tips, besides keeping down the score of passed balls to a couple only.</p>
    525 bytes (85 words) - 18:26, 29 February 2020
  • Clipping:Passed balls not counted as errors
    |Title=passed balls not counted as errors ...any readers why a passed ball is not an error. Suppose that two Clubs are playing: the first makes no earned runs, the second makes no errors, but the first
    763 bytes (131 words) - 19:16, 29 February 2020
  • 1825.9
    ...every Saturday afternoon, through the season, the weather permitting, Bats Balls and Refreshments provided by Emmons Rudge." <i>American Mercury</i> [Hartf
    482 bytes (67 words) - 17:40, 6 September 2012
  • 1494c.1
    ...iscovered vulcanization [1839], "India rubber" balls were to be identified with the New York game of baseball.</p>
    1 KB (200 words) - 13:44, 3 November 2012
  • Clipping:Umpire must call a ball or a strike
    ...lled two balls and two strikes. The next ball must have made either three balls or three strikes.</p>
    604 bytes (101 words) - 19:15, 29 February 2020
  • Clipping:Critique of four balls for a walk, foul. tips
    |Title=critique of four balls for a walk, foul. tips ...im to hit the ball. It is also likely to lead to complications as regards balls that do not come straight from the bat but that rise a little., quoting the
    850 bytes (153 words) - 20:28, 29 February 2020
  • Clipping:Over-weight balls
    |Title=over-weight balls |Text=<p>...playing with , which are all the rage among the batting-clubs of Philadelphia...</p>
    273 bytes (37 words) - 18:30, 29 February 2020
  • Clipping:Playing the right fielder in
    |Title=playing the right fielder in ...to the outfield as often as it was likely to be at right short, and by the playing of the second baseman well back of second, an open place was covered, which
    785 bytes (133 words) - 19:01, 29 February 2020
  • 1771.2
    |Headline=Province of New Hampshire Prohibits Christmas "Playing With Balls" in the Streets ...ioned within the town of Portsmouth . . . by boys and fellows playing with balls in the public street: . . . [when] there is danger of breaking the windows
    1 KB (167 words) - 21:06, 25 January 2020
  • 1849c.5
    |Headline=New Chapbook Names Several Games Played with Balls ...n is the observation that "[t]here are a great number of games played with balls, of which base-ball, trap ball, cricket, up-ball, catch-ball and drive ball
    598 bytes (96 words) - 17:52, 6 September 2012
  • 1771.1
    |Game=Playing with Balls ...rtmouth students to engage in "that which is puerile, such as playing with balls, bowls and other ways of diversion."</p>
    1 KB (170 words) - 18:17, 14 October 2015
  • Clipping:A high delivery
    ...out this defect of Mr. Lamb's pitching now so that he may reform it before playing in the college-championship games.</p>
    669 bytes (103 words) - 19:17, 29 February 2020
  • Clipping:Fewer balls for a walk; too much pitcher and catcher
    |Title=fewer balls for a walk; too much pitcher and catcher ...ctive when they could deliver nine balls without penalty than they are now with seven, and the reduction to six will have naught but a beneficial effect.
    2 KB (392 words) - 19:51, 29 February 2020
  • 1847.8
    ...house, pelting each other with snow-balls and playing town-ball. [but the balls a soldier plies] are dangerous, and when they strike they leave more painfu
    755 bytes (113 words) - 17:51, 6 September 2012
  • Clipping:Calling and counting balls
    |Title=calling and counting balls |Text=<p>In calling balls, under the code of playing rules for 1873, the Umpire must observe the appended rules–</p>
    4 KB (641 words) - 18:50, 29 February 2020
  • Clipping:Umpire giving too many warnings, should call balls
    |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
    1 KB (226 words) - 18:32, 29 February 2020
  • Clipping:A fifth infielder
    ...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
    1 KB (214 words) - 19:01, 29 February 2020
  • Clipping:Umpires not calling balls; strikes should be called only if batter wilfully refusing to strike
    |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
    1 KB (236 words) - 18:33, 29 February 2020
  • Clipping:Scoring base on balls as an error
    |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
    2 KB (343 words) - 20:06, 29 February 2020
  • 1861.22
    ...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>
    982 bytes (142 words) - 17:12, 19 July 2018
  • 1807.1
    |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>
    888 bytes (133 words) - 06:29, 28 January 2020
  • Clipping:Intimidating the umpire; time of game
    ...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
    1 KB (211 words) - 19:54, 29 February 2020
  • BC1460.1
    |Headline=Egyptian Tomb Inscriptions Show Bats, Balls ...t=<p>Wall inscriptions in Egyptian royal tombs depict games using bats and balls.</p>
    1 KB (203 words) - 18:47, 9 May 2015
  • Clipping:A player dishonorably working a base on balls?
    |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
    2 KB (318 words) - 18:32, 29 February 2020
  • 1801.6
    |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.</
    807 bytes (112 words) - 12:40, 31 May 2022
  • Clipping:A ground rule for the outfield crowd
    ...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>
    452 bytes (69 words) - 19:16, 29 February 2020
  • Clipping:Playing for a release 2
    |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.</
    958 bytes (162 words) - 20:00, 29 February 2020
  • 1781.1
    |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
    2 KB (310 words) - 13:15, 27 January 2020
  • Clipping:Basemen adjusting where they play
    ...lders will be able to consolidate their forces so as to secure more ground-balls than they did before.</p>
    1 KB (193 words) - 19:04, 29 February 2020
  • Clipping:Wasting time looking for foul balls
    |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>
    466 bytes (74 words) - 19:17, 29 February 2020
  • Clipping:Pitching unfair balls
    |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
    2 KB (306 words) - 18:25, 29 February 2020
  • Clipping:Inconsistency in scoring errors
    ...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
    1 KB (235 words) - 19:48, 29 February 2020
  • 1861.71
    |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
    1 KB (164 words) - 10:06, 16 June 2019
  • Clipping:Murnane on infielder positioning
    ...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
    2 KB (372 words) - 20:27, 29 February 2020
  • Clipping:Rebuttal to a proposal to return to straight-arm pitching; reduce the number of balls for a walk
    ...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>
    2 KB (351 words) - 19:35, 29 February 2020
  • Clipping:Uniform rules under the National Agreement; official balls
    |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
    1 KB (166 words) - 20:10, 29 February 2020
  • Clipping:The veterans insist on playing under modified current rules
    |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
    1 KB (175 words) - 19:00, 29 February 2020
  • Clipping:Catchers playing close to the bat too often
    |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
    2 KB (333 words) - 19:00, 29 February 2020
  • Clipping:Playing without a short stop, the third baseman tries to cover the ground
    |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>
    536 bytes (85 words) - 18:29, 29 February 2020
  • Clipping:Reducing the number of balls for a walk
    |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
    1 KB (208 words) - 19:16, 29 February 2020
  • Clipping:Umpire not calling strikes
    ...th and eighth innings alone, on which five strikes were called, the R.I.'s playing a waiting game.</p>
    1 KB (190 words) - 19:01, 29 February 2020
  • Clipping:Rule changes increase batting
    ...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,
    686 bytes (116 words) - 20:40, 29 February 2020
  • Clipping:A late wait game
    ...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>
    511 bytes (84 words) - 18:25, 29 February 2020
  • Clipping:NL adopts two ball system
    ...n that in many cases where Bob Ferguson used two balls this season, it was with good effect.</p>
    665 bytes (107 words) - 20:01, 29 February 2020
  • Clipping:Switching a live and a dead ball
    ...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
    674 bytes (106 words) - 19:55, 29 February 2020
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