Clipping:Infielders charged with too many errors
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| Date | Monday, January 7, 1878 |
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| Text | Scorers, as a general thing, were too hard on short-stops last season in the way of charging them with errors. We saw some scorers charge short-stops with errors when they failed to stop a hard-hit ground ball well enough to pick it up sand throw it to the base. To stop a hard-hit grounders, even if the ball be not sent to the base in time, is a good play and no error. If it is sent to the base in time it is a splendid piece of fielding. Frequently hard-hit balls from curved, low pitching, when they strike the infield in front of the short-stop, diverge on the rebound at a tangent, and thus escape capture. This, too, was frequently charged as an error, when a base-hit should have been credited. There is altogether too great a tendency to charge errors to fielders—to short-stops in particular—in cases where hard-hit ground balls are not stopped in time. It is difficult 6to do it on a smooth, velvety turf like that of the infield of the Union Grounds, and almost impossible on a rough or uneven infield, like that of the majority of ball fields. quoting the New York Clipper |
| Source | Cincinnati Enquirer |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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