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Late-season Pro-league Proto-standings
| Salience | Noteworthy |
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| Tags | StatisticsStatistics |
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| City/State/Country: | United States |
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| Game | Base BallBase Ball |
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| Age of Players | AdultAdult |
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| Text | 1872 League records format. |
| Sources | Philadelphia Sunday Mercury, October 27, 1872: |
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| Comment | Richard Hershberger, "150 years ago in baseball, 10/282022. "The not-quite final standings. The championship season runs through the end of the month, so we are pretty close. This is the standard format in the day, and I quite like it. It takes some getting used to, but it provides information absent from the modern format."
Note: Peter Morris' A Game of Inches, 2012 Edition, p. 477, gives an overview of the evolution of the box score, starting the what is seen as the first, the New York Herald account of the game between the NYBBC and a club from Brooklyn, played at Elysian Fields, Hoboken, in October 1845. He adds that Henry Chadwick with inventing it. "Chadwick is usually credited with being the inventor of the the box score. But the facts seem to suggest that, at most, Chadwick deserves credit, at most, with adding a few categories to it." Edit with form to add a comment |
| Query | [] Are we seeing modern "standings" (perhaps with winning pct, games behind) any time soon? Why would they list teams alphabetically rather than by number of wins?
Richard Hershberger, 10/29/2022 -- "I'm not actually sure when we start to see the modern format. That passed by me without my consciously noting. Sometime in the 1880s, maybe?"
[] Is it likely that cricket already used box scores by 1845? Would that have influenced Chadwick and others v=covering base ball?
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Submission Note | FB posting, 10/28/2022 |
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1872.15 Late-season Pro-league Proto-standings"
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