Clipping:Al Wright and using percentages for championship

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Date Saturday, November 8, 1890
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Al Wright, the veteran base ball reporters, now with a New York weekly publication, is credited with being the first to propose the percentage system in deciding championships and also with the invention of the checkerboard arrangement now used weekly in all the leading papers to show the progress of the championship race.

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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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