Clipping:A passed ball less discreditable than a stolen base for the catcher
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| Date | Wednesday, June 8, 1887 |
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| Text | [from Brunell's column] Look through the averages of the Association and see how the passed balls have increased this season. In the local games it is easy to see their increase and the reason for it. One of the new scoring rules' stings are extracted by this means. You remember the rule. It says in effect that in the fourth columns of the score shall be scored stolen bases, which shall include every base cleanly stolen or got on an error outside those known as “battery” errors or “balks.” The catchers figure, and rightly too, that a passed ball contains less discredit to them than a stolen base, and have got into the way of working a trick which prevents one scoring a stolen base for a player who actually deserves one, and in a case clearly within view of the new rule, by dropping the ball pitched to them after a base-runner has got a good start for a safe steal. Milligan worked the new and fashionable trick to a nicety. So did Jack O'Brien, Sam Trott and Donahue. Of course a scorer has no choice in the matter. Such drops are passed balls, and a stolen base cannot be scored on such a battery error. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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