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First Seasonal Analysis Includes Primordial Batting Statistic

Salience	Noteworthy
Tags	Stats and Box ScoresStats and Box Scores
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City/State/Country:	New York, NY, United States
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Game	Base BallBase Ball
Immediacy of Report	Contemporary
Age of Players	AdultAdult
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Text	On December 10, 1859, the New York Clipper printed a seasonal analysis of the performance of the Excelsior Club of Brooklyn, including two charts with individual batting and fielding statistics for each member of the club. Compiled by Henry Chadwick, he described it as the “first analysis of a Base Ball Club we have seen published.” Within the “Analysis of the Batting” were two columns titled “Average and Over,” reflecting the rate at which batters scored runs and made outs per game. These averages were in the cricket style of X—Y, where X is the number of runs per game divided evenly (the “average”) and Y is the remainder (the “over”). For instance, Henry Polhemus scored 31 runs in 14 games for the Excelsiors in the 1859 season, an average of 2—3 (14 divides evenly into 31 twice, leaving a remainder of 3).
Sources	New York Clipper (New York City, NY), 10 December 1859: p. 268
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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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1859.69 First Seasonal Analysis Includes Primordial Batting Statistic"

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