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This was actually a really popular winter sport in the late 1800s, one of the reasons we overrun first base is because they allowed over skating any base in ice-baseball and it carried over to the summer game. The early rulemakers got rid of overrunning the other bases, but first remained.
Yes, I'm completely serious, source: A Game of Inches by Peter Morris
For baseball history buffs A Game of Inches tells the story of how all the rules of the game got started and evolved in its early history. Ever wonder why it's precisely 3 strikes and 4 balls, or 9 innings etc.? This book has it.
A Game of Inches by Peter Morris is basically the complete encyclopedic history of how and when every facet of the game, on- and off-field, evolved. It uses newspaper articles and player interviews to construct how the game looked throughout history, how changes came about and how people felt about them.