Clipping:Score keeping
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| Date | Saturday, March 1, 1879 |
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| Text | For some years past there has been a decided waste of figuring over the record-scores of baseball matches. Experience has shown that all that is essential in the record-score of a match for publication is just the amount of figures necessary for data in making up the season’s averages of a player. Now, what comprises a player’s averages? The answer is his average of base-hits and his average of chances for putting players out–or assisting to put them out–arrived at by comparing the chances offered to those accepted. The figures required for this data are simply the record of the times at the bat and base-hits made–not total, but only single–to cover the batting, and the chances offered and chances accepted to cover the fielding. The score of runs is immaterial as it really has but little to do with the base-running, inasmuch as a runner is sent round the bases by hits or errors ten times to twice that he steals his way round. Stealing bases is exception; being sent round by hits or fielding errors is the rule. Add to this the score of runs made each inning, and a summary score showing runs earned, times, first bases made by fielding errors, and total fielding errors, and your record-score is complete as far as data for averages is concerned. The important question as to what are to be considered base-hits and what not, also what are to be regarded as chances offered, remains to be answered, and it can only be answered by an established rule governing each special play. |
| Source | New York Clipper |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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