1872.10

Unofficial Scoresheets Evolve, K's Not Reported Yet

Salience	Noteworthy
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Location	Philadelphia, PAPhiladelphia, PA
City/State/Country:	Philadelphia, PA, United States
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Immediacy of Report	Contemporary
Age of Players	AdultAdult
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Text	"Scoring is not yet regulated on the league level. Individual clubs and scorers are still experimenting." -- Comment by Richard Hershberger in 8/24/2022 FB posting.
Sources	Philadelphia Sunday Mercury, August 25, 1872
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Comment	From Richard Hershberger, 150 years ago today in baseball: "Baltimore at Philadelphia where they beat the A's 12-8. . . I am excerpting the box score because it is an interesting format. Notice how strike outs are only indirectly indicated. The reporter, Al Wright, is also the A's official scorer, so this is not merely some journalistic idiosyncrasy. Scoring is not yet regulated on the league level. Individual clubs and scorers are still experimenting." Steve Colbert comments: "I have seen this format a couple of times while digging through box scores in the 1870 and 1871 seasons. When reviewing some of the play-by-play's, apparently missed 3rd strikes were recorded only as errors and not logged as strike outs anywhere that I can tell." Edit with form to add a comment
Query	Is it noteworthy that only one walk occurred in this 12-8 game? Edit with form to add a query
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Submitted by	Richard Hershberger
Submission Note	FB Posting, 8/24/2022
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