Clipping:Antedating 'fielder's choice'; scoring
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| Date | Wednesday, January 11, 1888 |
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| Text | There are three plays in the game of ball where it is an injustice to give either a base hit or an error. ... The third is what some scorers style a “fielder’s choice.” For instance: With a man on second base a ball is hit to the short stop. The short stop could easily retire the runner at first base, but instead tries to catch the man who is running for third, and fails by reason of the base runner beating the ball. Rules should be made that will cover these three plays. Cleveland Plain Dealer January 11, 1888 [from Alfred R. Crotty's, aka “Circle's” column] I don't know how they score in Philadelphia, but that was certainly a queer break made by a member of the Quaker City Association in his paper one day this week. He said it was hardly just to score either a base hit or an error in several instances cited, and among those he mentioned a fielder's choice, or base on play. In these words a fielder's choice is scored as such and nothing more. How can it be called anything else? Even if it was by slow fielding it cannot be called an error or base hit. The Sporting Life January 18, 1888 |
| Source | Cleveland Plain Dealer |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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