Clipping:Newspaper scores more accurate than official scores

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Date	Sunday, October 7, 1877
Text	[discussing the reported player averages] ...The Tribune does not wish to claim that these figures are the same as those which will be given in the official book by the League Secretary next March. These are made up from printed tables, almost invariably from the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, the Louisville Courier-Journal, the Boston Herald, The Chicago Tribune, and such reports from Brooklyn as the reporter could lay hands on. It is proper here to say that in many cases the figures given will be smaller than those in the League Secretary’s book. For this reason: Some scorers have a habit of tampering with the figures so as to raise up friends and put down enemies. That sort of thing does not appear in the newspaper scores, but it does in the private League official scores. To a certain extent, therefore, the newspaper scores are the most trustworthy.
Source	Chicago Tribune
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Submitted by	Richard Hershberger
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