Clipping:A local consensus on how to score stolen bases
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| Date | Wednesday, December 1, 1886 |
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| Text | [from a letter by Horace Fogel] When the Athletic and Philadelphia clubs played the spring series we started for the first time to score “stolen bases.” Of course there was wrangling and disputing at first, and for the first two games the scorer's box was a regular debating society; but we soon had the matter down fine, and it became as easy and nature to us as it was to score runs. We met in the box the first day, and before the game was called the matter was thoroughly discussed. The rule was read and re-read, and we all agreed upon a uniform system. We decided to score every time a man started for another bag, and succeeded in getting there. Of course there was no trouble about scoring “clean” steals. The rule means that if a man starts to steal a base and gets there, no matter if there's a wild thrown a muff, a fumble, a wild pitch, a passed ball or any kind of an error made, he shall be given credit for a steal, providing, of course, that he started to run before the error was made. This is what the rule provides, and this is the way we score it in Philadelphia. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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