| Show ER FINALLY OUT I 1 three assists required to retire man stealing base throw from batcher catcher hits pitcher on 0 n head shortstop catches it and nips runner at third how scorer figured it out claude derry berry former catcher for tho the pittsburgh feds tells this one one day while I 1 was catching for the tha dallas tex team a runner on first started to steal second I 1 pegged toward the base but our pitcher walker had bad moved out of the box after he delivered the ball and walked into the throw the ball hit walker on top of the head ead and as walker dropped to the tha ground the ball bounded high in the tha air the runner had bad reached second by that time and not acing the ball in play raced for third kut but our shortstop saw the ball caught it as it came down and whipped it to third in time to put out the runner the tha official scorer credited three men with an assist he gave me an assist because I 1 had made the original throw he gave one to the pitcher because his head bead had deflected the ball to the shortstop and of course ito ho gave one to tho shortstop for making the tha throw to third berry by the way is believed to be ba the only catcher who jumped into a grandstand after a foul ball and caught it he performed the trick when ho he w waa as in san francisco in 1908 barrys berrys other claim to famo fame is that during the season of 1908 1909 in california covering a straight stretch of 12 months he ha caught 34 games while with the san francisco team that means he worked nearly every day for a year |
