Excerpt from The Reliable Book of Outdoor Games: Containing Official Rules for Playing Base Ball, Foot Ball, Cricket, Lacrosse, Tennis, Croquet, Etc Sec. 7. An error shall be given in the seventh column fer each misplay which allows the striker or base runner to make one or more bases when perfect play would have insured his being put out, except that wild pitches, bases on balls, bases on the batsman being struck by a pitched ball or case of illegal, pitched balls, balks and passed balls; shall not be' included in said column. In scoring errors of batted balls see Section 3 of this rule. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.