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  • Tracking base-runners wouldn't work — players don't run fast enough for radar.

    ESPN adds new graphics for Home Run Derby coverage 2009

  • In all the crazy movements of base-runners and cutoff men and amid the gasps and cheers of the fans, he had passed the retreating Rosen and, finally at second base, saw the incoming throw and realized what had happened.

    WILLIE MAYS JAMES S. HIRSCH 2010

  • He allowed two base-runners in the top of the ninth before persuading manager

    Mets 3, Reds 0 2010

  • Twice in 15 days he has entered the ninth inning with a two-run lead and failed to hold it, and only once in his last 14 save opportunities has he pitched a clean game and allowed no base-runners.

    Struggling K-Rod Admits, 'I'm Not Where I Need to Be' 2010

  • Ty Cobb: Shocker had a peculiar head motion that used to dazzle base-runners.

    The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers Bill James Rob Neyer 2004

  • Ty Cobb: Shocker had a peculiar head motion that used to dazzle base-runners.

    The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers Bill James Rob Neyer 2004

  • Ty Cobb: Shocker had a peculiar head motion that used to dazzle base-runners.

    The Neyer/James Guide To Pitchers Bill James Rob Neyer 2004

  • Sliding, as an art, is of recent growth, though it has long been the practice of base-runners to drop to avoid being touched.

    Base-Ball How to Become a Player John M. Ward

  • Succeeding base-runners should have private signals so that they may communicate their intentions without apprising the opposing players.

    Base-Ball How to Become a Player John M. Ward

  • It should be added that the game would have been won again in the eighth inning but for the unpardonable stupidity of one of the Providence base-runners.

    Base-Ball How to Become a Player John M. Ward

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