Clipping:Base on balls as an error, and earned runs
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| Date | Wednesday, January 11, 1888 |
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| Text | … [reporting on the meeting of the Philadelphia scorers 12/31/87] [quoting Horace Fogel] The idea of scoring a base on balls as an error for the pitcher, and yet if a three-bagger should follow this run shall count as an earned run, is simply ridiculous. I, for one, would be more faithful to the paper I represented than to print scores that were misleading and unintelligible, regardless of what the rules called for. … Mr. Niles failed to see anything ridiculous in scoring earned runs made off bases on balls. He argued that to give a pitcher an error and then if the man he sent to base on balls scored, on being batted in, and by counting that as an earned run he would be doubly punished, and he believed it would have a good effect in checking wild pitching. Mr. Fogel claimed that the newspaper had nothing to do with punishing pitchers and he was opposed to using them as tools to aid managers in disciplining their players. The only interest a newspaper had in base ball was to chronicle the news and report the games impartially for the benefit of the readers. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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