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Show 0 ............................. ............ j Freakiest Freak Play. Here is the freakiest of freak plays that, it Is said, took place in the Blue Ridge league. It Is alleged to be a triple play In which not one member of the J defending side touched the ball. While It apparently violates a flock of baseball rules, never- theless It Is worth printing. 1 One team had runners on first and second with nobody out. t The batsman hit an infield fly, and the umpire called him out under the rules. The infield fly I in descending hit the head of the runner on second, and he I was declared out by the umpire. The ball rolled toward first t base, and the base runner, who was there, In disgust, picked it up and threw it to the outfield. He was declared out for intor- ference, making three outs wlth-out wlth-out a player In the field touch- f ing the hall. I It Is said that the decision of t the ump went, although it is a i question whether it could be J called a continuous play. Neither i Is it certain that an umpire f would declare a base runner out i for being hit by an infield fly after he had called "infield fly." Yet a ball is not necessarily out of play on an infield fly, for j the rule says that any runner ', trying to advance on an Infield t fly does so at his own risk. '! t 4 6 |