Clipping:Inconsistency in scoring errors
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| Date | Sunday, July 1, 1883 |
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| Text | The official book of base ball rules is designed to promote uniformity in the method of playing and of scoring championship games, and yet the diversity of style is almost as great as the scorers are numerous. Scarcely two men score exactly alike the difference in opinion becomes more marked when the subject of errors is broached. The books says: “An error should be given for 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.” also that “an error should be given to the pitcher when the batsman is given first base on 'called balls.'” Notwithstanding this plain language a large majority of the scorers do not score an error for each misplay which allows one or more bases to be made—passed balls and wild pitches, for instance—and yet they do give errors for a muffed foul fly, on which nothing is make, though a life is given to the batter. It is an error, though the rules do not cover it as such. Comparatively few score an error to the pitcher for giving a base on “called balls,” although the book of rules expressly provides that it shall be so scored. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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