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Originally Posted by Hankphenom
Germany Schaefer stole first base.
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What made Rickey the GOAT was not that he stole all those bases, but that "you can't steal first base" -- his OBP was incredible, especially leading off. The last thing any pitcher wanted to do was to let him get on base. And yet you could "steal" first base, until Schaefer prompted an explicit rule making it unallowable.
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