Clipping:A debate over the proposal to eliminate scoring errors

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Date Friday, March 14, 1879
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Several journals, the usually sensible Boston Herald among the number, lay great stress on the assertion that, should the error column be excluded from the score, there would be no motive for effort—players would get lazy and not half try. This is sheer nonsense. Knowing that they would be under the eyes of a dozen, more or less, reporters, with pencils as sharp as lances, fear, if no other incentive, would keep the laziest wide awake. Every ball-player knows that the average reporter is as quick to detect the bad as he is to see the good. He knows that any exertion, whether it be crowned with success or not, will be duly noted. – Sunday Courier. There would, perhaps, be some reason in the above, if base-ball journals gave a detailed description of each inning of every game, but it is well known that, except where games are played on home grounds, the papers give only a brief description, and, in a majority of cases, a mere introduction, followed by the full score. If the papers follow the same policy in the future, and undoubtedly they will do so, and the error columns is abolished from the score, how are lovers of the game to know whether or not a contest played at a distance is a good fielding exhibition? – Boston Herald

Source Cincinnati Enquirer
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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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