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Slugging Stat Arrives in Early Form
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| City/State/Country: | New York, NY, United States |
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| Text | “Average total bases on hits to a game” first appears in the New York Clipper on December 4, 1869. It would continue to be used in 1870 and 1871 before falling out of favor. Slugging average—total bases on hits per at-bat—would be adopted by the National League in 1923 as one of two averages, along with batting average, tracked by the official statistician.
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| Sources | New York Clipper (New York City, NY), 4 December 1869: p. 277. |
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| Comment | For a short history of batting measures, see Colin Dew-Becker, “Foundations of Batting Analysis,” p 1 – 9: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0btLf16riTacFVEUV9CUi1UQ3c/ Edit with form to add a comment |
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| Submitted by | Colin Dew-Becker |
| Submission Note | Email of 9/15/2014 |
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1869.6 Slugging Stat Arrives in Early Form"
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