Clipping:Proposed scoring changes: abolishing the errors column and base hits
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| Date | Tuesday, December 4, 1877 |
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| Text | [proposals for the League meeting] 1.The abolition of the error columns. Bold, daring fielding on the part of every fielder would liven up the game twenty per cent. base ball patrons will remember how, at times, a remarkable play by a fielder in taking great chances has enthused the spectators and given vim to the sport. But, with the error column staring them in the face, alas, most players take but few wide chances. Nothing is so disgusting to a crowd of lookers-on as to see a player shirk a difficult play when it is patent to all that he feared there were too many chances for an error against him to i8nduce him to attempt the play. With no error record to go against him no chance would be slighted by a player, for then he would have every thing to gain if he made the play and nothing to lose if he failed. Give him the benefit of his assists ans put-outs as usual, but demolish that demoralizing factor, the error column. 2. The abolition of base-hits, and the substitution in their place of a column indicating the number of times a player reached first base during the game. As it is, the player, so soon as he sees he has not made a clean hit, loses interest in the “subsequent proceedings,” or at least is not excited to great exertions, and many a run has been lost by a player's failure to take every chance to reach first base after he sees that he has not hit clean. Then let the total base column, such as was used last yea4r, stand, or better yet, revive the old total base hit columns of two years ago to show the total bases made on clean hits. This plan would not entirely put away base-hit scoring, but put it out of harm's way. Let the yearly record of the player be made up of his first-base times, which would be a better indication of his capabilities. This would not be a measure of his batting powers alone, but would gauge his value as a base-runner, a safe batter, or a vicious batter. Then such men as we could name, who play for base hits alone, would be induced to put some soul into their playing. |
| Source | Cincinnati Enquirer |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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