Clipping:Scoring stolen bases 5
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| Date | Wednesday, November 16, 1887 |
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| Text | [from Chadwick's column] ...I would give credit for a stolen base whenever the runner successfully reaches a base after getting first base, and also whenever he reaches the base through an incorrect throw or a muff of the ball by the base player, when such throw or muff is palpably the result of an extra effort to put the runner out. Catchers will throw accurately, as a rule, when the chance to throw is offered them while the runner is close to the base he is about to leave. But the chances for poor throwing are greatly increased when the runner is active and alert enough to have secured a good start for his run before the catcher has the chance for a correct throw fairly given him, and though the throw is a failure and consequently an error in one sense, it is not such as error as should deprive the base-runner of the credit of a stolen base. The same rule, too, should govern the case of a muff of the thrown ball similar in character to the throwing errors referred to. Encourage base-running as much as possible for it has become, next to sharp fielding, the most exciting and attractive feature of the game. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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