Clipping:A history of the error column

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Date	Wednesday, March 3, 1886
Text	[from the Columbus correspondent “Buckeye,” probably Jimmy Williams] It is claimed that the error columns is the cause of all the wrangles between players concerning the misplays of the game. I will give you a little bit of history on the error column that may have escaped some of the able writers aforesaid,, some of whom did not know a base ball from a mock orange in those days. In 1879, I think it was, the National Association abolished the error column in its scoring—that is the official scorers did not keep errors, and they were not reported to the secretary of the Association. It was done for the very reasons that are now urged in favor of it and in good faith. What was the result? While the official scorers religiously obeyed the rule the newspaper reporters just as religious reported and published the error column, so that it practically did not good and simply prevented the secretary from making his resume of the season's work in fielding what it ought to have been.
Source	Sporting Life
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Submitted by	Richard Hershberger
Origin	Initial Hershberger Clippings

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