Clipping:Scoring sacrifice hits 2
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| Date | Sunday, February 4, 1883 |
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| Text | Whenever a batsman is seen to neglect opportunities for safe hitting he is either a player who has not brains enough for scientific batting or he is striving solely to excel in the season's batting averages, and therefore is playing only for his record, irrespective of any thought of what good team-work play requires. Club managers should make it a part of a batsman's duties as a team-player to make sacrifice-hits whenever an extra base or an extra run can be scored by such a hit. Sacrifice-hitting at times is just as effectual in scoring a run as a base-hit, and every time a run is scored on such a hit the batsman should be credited with a base-hit. To see skillful batsmen facing for the right position in batting and trying to place a ball when men are running bases is to see batting in its proper form. When no man is on a base then a home-run hitter can indulge in his pet hit without cost. When all the bases are occupied, too, it is perhaps worth while to go in for a long hit, but even then it depends upon the effectiveness of the pitching opposed to the batsmen. |
| Source | Philadelphia Item |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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