Clipping:The Sporting Life's finances
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| Date | Tuesday, April 2, 1889 |
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| Text | The Sporting Life is very successful. It declared a semi-annual dividend of four per cent. yesterday. Editor Richter is progressive and is deserving of all the credit for the success of the paper. The Philadelphia Item April 2, 1889 scoring in Boston; sacrifice hits; RBI The Boston Herald says: “The Boston scorers have decided to score as last season, but will eliminate the stolen base column, substituting the sacrifice hit column. The total base column will be retained.” This is simply offering their accustomed premium for record batting, just as the offering of prizes for the best batting averages. Both are opposed to team work in batting. Suppose a batsman makes three hits in a game, yielding third base each time, when no man is on the bases, and he is left on third each time. In the record he gets the credit of three base hits, with a total of nine. Suppose another batsman makes three sacrifice hits, when a runner is on third base each hit; he makes no base hit and of course no total his, and gets no credit for such on the average. Yet the man who made the base hits and gets the credit does not help the score for his side in a single instance, while the batsman who gets no base hit average brought in three runs. This is a sample of the beauties of the average of base hits, and the publishing of the column of total hits. It is simply offering prizes for record play at the bat. Brooklyn Eagle April 2, 1889 |
| Source | Philadelphia Item |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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