Clipping:Should errors be scored?
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| Date | Thursday, March 12, 1868 |
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| Text | When our system of abbreviations came into general use...more interest was taken in recording the details of each game, and especially in regard to fielding, and last year a decided improvement was manifested in scoring, while some of the best scorers in the country took pains to prepare model documents in the way of analytical statements of the season’s play of their club’s nine. A feature of all of these statements, however, was columns of figures showing the errors of fielding in the form of muffed balls, overthrows, dropped fly balls, passed balls, &c. Of course, in forming a very correct estimate of a man’s skill as a player, not only his good plays but his bad ones should be enumerated; but, unluckily, while the record of the former greatly encourages a player to make more strenuous efforts to excel, that of the latter generally has the reverse effect. In fact, experience has shown us conclusively that a record of errors of play inserted either in the club score book, or published in the scores of matches played, has a far more injurious than beneficial effect, and we have come to the conclusion that it is better for the interests of the game that it should be abolished; and with that object in view the system of recording matches which we adopted for The Chronicle from its very first issue, was marked by the absence of all record of errors in the fielding department, our idea being that it was punishment enough to a player to have but few good marks for skillful p lay, or his name left out altogether in the list of such awards, without adding to it a detailed record of his every failure to hold or throw a ball properly. This, therefore, is the feature of the new system of scoring we have established and which we propose to the fraternity as a substitute for that previously in vogue. American Chronicle of Sports and Pastimes March 12, 1868 (see issue of 3/19/1868 for a long description of the scoring method.) |
| Source | American Chronicle of Sports and Pastimes |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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