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DONKEY BASEBALL” RULESARE PUBLISHED TO INFORMFANS FOR LAUREL SERIESVi:yWhat is “Donkey-Baseball?How is it played?And a large number of other questions have been asked numerous times during the past few days, therefore the rules for the game are given below. Clip them out and see if the men play according to “Hoyle.”The game shall be played with all rules, in common to professional “hard ball” baseball, with the following exceptions:1. The ball played with shall be a regulation indoor baseball, and the bats used shall be indoor baseball bats.2. The bases shall be only sixty feet apart. There shall be a square four-feet square marked off about each base and home plate. There shall be a pitchers and catchers box that shall be ten feet wide and that extends from behind home plate back to the backstop and past the pitchers box ten feet, in other words a large rectangle starting at the backstop and extending ten feet behind the pitchers box. The pitcher and catcher shall not be permitted, except to recover a foul ball, or when the ball is not in play, to get his feet out of this rectangle, and to do so will constitute the same thing as a balk and advance any players on base one base.3. Each base runner and each base player must transport himself from base to base or to recover batted or thrown balls by means of his donkey. A base player cannot get his feet out of his baseunless on his donkey—and a runner cannot leave his base except on his donkey.4. Outfielders shall be permitted to take one step from their donkey in either catching or throwing the ball (to fall after the ball is constituted one step) but infielders while permitted to take one step from their donkey to field the ball, must remount their donkeys before throwing it or attempting a put-out.5. Each batter must when he has hit a fair ball transport himself from base to base on his donkey. On a force play the ball put into the baseman’s hands and he on his donkey on the base, the runner shall be counted out, and in other cases the baseman must touch the runner (not his donkey) to be out.6. The base runner shall be permitted to push out of his path another donkey, but any player who purposely touches the reins of another player is out, if a baserunner, of if a base player or fielder, then the runner shall be advanced one base,7. Before each game each donkey shall be designated for a certan position and shall not be changed from that position. When three outs are made the side in the field gets off their donkey and proceeds to bat and those players in to bat take the field, mounting the donkeys left at the position for them,8. No baseball gloves are used and no spurs or saddles on the donkeys.
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Leader Call
Laurel, Mississippi, US
Fri, Apr 20, 1934
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