Clipping:Batting average more important than slugging
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| Date | Thursday, March 19, 1868 |
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| Text | ...we can ... illustrate the difference [between counting base hits versus counting bases] by noting from actual play. In the match between the Mutuals and Haymakers last fall, Pike scored four times, made his base four times on clean hits, and made seven bases on the same hits, and not one base on an error in fielding. C. Hunt made two runs, one of which was on a clean home run, for which he was credited with four bases on his hit, and with having made his base once on his hit, the other run being made from a base given on a wild throw. Now, according to the average of bases on clean hits, Pike is credited with less than two to a hit, and Hunt with four; yet Pike secured his base four times by clean hits, getting four runs, and Hunt only once, getting two runs, one of which followed his getting a base by an error of fielding. Had Hunt scored home runs, instead of being twice put out–though he would have sent no more men home by his hits than Pike did by his–he would have been credited with twelve bases on hits to Pike’s seven, although Pike would have even scored four runs to Hunt’s three, and made his first base by his hit four times to Hunt’s three, and, as a matter of course, batted the most effectively for the interests of his club in the match; and yet Hunt would have carried off the honors in an estimate of batting made on the number of bases made on hits. |
| Source | American Chronicle of Sports and Pastimes |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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