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Originally Posted by jr131981
when base ball (yes, it was spelled with 2 words) was first invented, you could not overrun 1st. they also had a bunch of wierd rules like you can catch the ball off the bounce, 1st, 2nd, 3rd had to play next to the base, the SS would switch sides of the field depending if a LHB was up, any ball that touches fair territory once was fair.
i would only assume that since they realized there were so many ground balls hit, that to give runners a chance they allowed them to overrun 1st.
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Actually it was Rounders, one word and you ran base to base (actually, post to post) and maintain contact.
My guess is that when it was stolen....er, evolved into baseball, the rule was changed to allow the BR to proceed at the quickest speed so they could brag to their girlfriends about how fast they are.
Okay, maybe the girlfriend bragging is a bit too much.
