Clipping:Proposed scoring RBIs, sacrifices

19C Clippings
	Clippings in 1853 Clippings in 1854 Clippings in 1855 Clippings in 1856 Clippings in 1857 Clippings in 1858 Clippings in 1859 Clippings in 1860 Clippings in 1861 Clippings in 1862 Clippings in 1863 Clippings in 1864 Clippings in 1865 Clippings in 1866 Clippings in 1867 Clippings in 1868 Clippings in 1869 Clippings in 1870 Clippings in 1871 Clippings in 1872 Clippings in 1873 Clippings in 1874 Clippings in 1875 Clippings in 1876 Clippings in 1877 Clippings in 1878 Clippings in 1879 Clippings in 1880 Clippings in 1881 Clippings in 1882 Clippings in 1883 Clippings in 1884 Clippings in 1885 Clippings in 1886 Clippings in 1887 Clippings in 1888 Clippings in 1889 Clippings in 1890
	Add a Clipping

Date	Wednesday, February 3, 1886
Text	[from the Louisville correspondent] The Philadelphia Press has a article on scoring in last Sunday's issue which had many good points. The main argument of the article is to add a new column to the score in which an account of sacrifice hits and hits which assist in making a run may be scored. This, I think, is an excellent plan; they go further and suggest that a half hit be given for each hit as described above. This, I think would be wrong, as the score should be an exact account of the play, and two sacrifice hits do not make one base hit any more than do four base hits by a player always make a run. The players' average could be made the same as now, when total bases are considered on his averages for safe hits, or average for total bases or average for safe hits and sacrifice hits. The latter would be the true criterion to judge a batsman by.
Source	Sporting Life
Tags
Warning
Comment	Edit with form to add a comment
Query	Edit with form to add a query
Submitted by	Richard Hershberger
Origin	Initial Hershberger Clippings

Comments