Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 249, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1914 — Freak Plays In Baseball. [ARTICLE]

Freak Plays In Baseball.

There was a play made the other day that ought to live in the history of freak plays in baseball; one that deserves a place with the ball that got caught in Cliff Carroll’s shirt pocket and< lost a game, with Isbell’s drive that struck on a wire nail at the top of a fence and decided a game; with the ball that rolled into a tomato can on the Boston grounds and almost cost Boston a pennant. The freak play happened at Buffalo In the ninth Inning of a game between Indianapolis and Buffalo. The score was tied;, each team had made four runs, when Hartford drove a fly to left. -Kaiser sprinted over and, while running at full speed, gotboth hands on the ball. Just aa he was making the catch he bumped the fence, the ball bounded out of his hands and went over Die fence, turning the catch into a home run that gave Buffalo a 5 to 4 victory. \ •