Clipping:The effect of the Louisville scandal on the St. Louis club
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Date | Sunday, December 16, 1877 |
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Text | [from a letter dated 12/6/77 from “Douce Davie” relating the failure of the St. Louis Club] But in spite of all these things–the debt and all–we should have gone on all right if it hadn’t been for those Louisville expulsions. They struck us right when we were trying to raise a little money to go on with next year, and it flattened us out as flat as the dollar of our dads, and there we have been ever since. Chicago Tribune December 16, 1877 an argument for scoring slugging percentage The elimination of the “total base” column from the future scores, was a very good idea, and the league could have done worse than expunge with it the “first base” column. We should like to drop both and the “reached first base” column, and substitute a column of “total bases” on hits, old-fashioned system. This is the true record of batting success, that is, it shows just how much a batsman helps himself along off clean hitting. Boston Herald December 16, 1877 |
Source | Chicago Tribune |
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Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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