Clipping:Statistical analysis: batting averages in decline

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Date Sunday, April 16, 1876
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Of a list of twenty-six professionals that have played for the last five years and averaged one base hit to a game and over each season, the following facts have been ascertained: Since 1872 there has been a gradual lessening of the batting average, which may be accounted for by the improvement in the art of pitching. In 1872 the average was 1.63 to a game; in 1873, 1.59; in 1874, 1.55; in 1875. 1.34. The most noticeable depreciation is in 1875, which is owing (including the improvement in pitching) to the change of the foul lines, thereby preventing many fair fouls, which any number of players were so clever in hitting. But four players improved on their average of the previous season in 1875, and those were Bechtel, Force, Schafer, and York; Sutton’s was the same in 1874.

Source New York Sunday Mercury
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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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