. St. Nicholas [serial]. times, of course,when the fielder is lucky if he is able to get holdof the ball at all. But there are plenty of othertimes when he has a great choice as to where hewill meet the ball, whether he will play back andlet the ball come to him on a bound, or run in andscoop it up before it has a chance to bound morethan once; and on this decision, occasionally, mayrest the game! That, too, is one of the beauties of base-ball: the entire game, at times a cham-pionship even, may depend, though the playerknows it not, on any play he makes. There neverwas a close-score game play
. St. Nicholas [serial]. times, of course,when the fielder is lucky if he is able to get holdof the ball at all. But there are plenty of othertimes when he has a great choice as to where hewill meet the ball, whether he will play back andlet the ball come to him on a bound, or run in andscoop it up before it has a chance to bound morethan once; and on this decision, occasionally, mayrest the game! That, too, is one of the beauties of base-ball: the entire game, at times a cham-pionship even, may depend, though the playerknows it not, on any play he makes. There neverwas a close-score game played which could nothave gone the other way had some one single playbeen otherwise accomplished. Nowhere is this seen more clearly than in themaking of double plays, those spectacular per-formances in which, with the bases full and oneout, for instance, a most unfavorable situation isturned to the advantage of the defending teamby two men being retired at once; or that equallyinteresting situation, two on, none out, and a. Tinker CA) HOW TINKER CUTS IN ON A BOUNDER AND SAVESA PRECIOUS HALF-SECOND. Tinker to Evers to Chance. This famous double play wasachieved so often that the phrase in the score has become a reason why it was so uniformly successful, whether started byTinker to Evers, or Evers to Tinker, was that both played the ball—neither let the ball play him/ In the diagram, Tinker runs in on theball and cuts off two or three bounds. He saves half a second. Hadhe let the ball play him, and remained at the position A, both run-ners would have been safe. As it was, both were out, simply becauseTinker ran the ball and saved that half-second of time. batting rally starting, which is nipped at the be-ginning by a double play that cuts off the twobudding runs! Tinker to Evers to Chance, the lilting littleline written in the score so many times when thegreat Chicago Cubs were winning four three World Championships, was possible,and became famous, fo
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