[MrUmpire]

Originally Posted by johnnyg08

Illegal. Did they allow it ?

Major butchering if they actually allowed it. big, big, no-no.

Year's ago...many years ago, on the R1/R3 situation, players would keep trying to steal 2nd to draw a throw...so they made a rule against "stealing a base backward" For these purposes, once you obtain the advance base, you can't go back.

I don't believe it has ever been legal to run the bases backwards. I'll check with my copy of the Cartwright Rules.