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Thereīs actually an interesting story to go with Merkleīs baserunning gaff. I think I read it in Fred Liebīs Baseball as I Have Known It, which is a great book by the way.
From what I recall just a week or so before Johnny Evers (or was it Tinker?) tried the same play against a different team, but the umpire said no, the game was over. Later, after thinking it over, the ump decided the Cubs were right and vowed, if it ever happened again, to call the play correctly. So Lieb asserts it wasnīt Merkle who pulled the boner (he was just following the lax custom of the time), but rather McGraw who should have been following the goings on of the rival Cubs and notified his players to play it by the book.
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