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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 299

An illustration from St. Nicholas [serial], 1873, leaf 299 — giving the batter an ex-cellent chance to make a hit. The hit-and-runplay is thus often signaled without being actually 804 THE BATTLE OF BASE-BALL [July, played—an obvious signal to play the hit-and-run,secretly countermanded, to get the pitcher towaste balls, being a very effective play and inthe… … THE HIT-AND-RUN. BUT THEY DON TALWAYS HIT IT! base instead of first, or with runners on first andsecond. It is never played with two out. Therunner on third takes as big a lead as he dares,and sprints for the plate with the pitchers mo-tion. The batter tries only to meet the ball-he does nt want to…

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