Handbook of athletic games for players, instructors, and spectators, comprising fifteen major ball games, track and field athletics and rowing races (1916)
Bancroft, Jessie Hubbell, 1867-, Pulvermacher, William Dean · New York, Macmillan · leaf 75
eet, or,if he bats a ball that strikes the Umpire on fair ground. BASE RUNNER. —Base running is the part ofbaseball around which all the rest of the game centers,for it is only by running a complete circuit of thebases, starting as batter and touching first, second,third, and fourth bases in… … < OH o ^ o2; 46 Baseball The entire object of the defensive team is to pre-vent these runs, by putting out (retiring) the playersbefore they can get to the last base or home plate.Players may be put out by (i) pitching the balls sothat the batter misses three strikes, in which case heis put out…
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