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| Date | Sunday, July 11, 1880 |
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| Text | Below are given some interesting figures as to individual work in the thirty-eight games played by the Chicago team prior to yesterday, and also a record of the runs batted home by the different players in the twenty games played in this city. The percentage of base hits is reckoned on the basis of times at bat, and the column of “runs batted home” is computed upon the basis of results, but not of clean hits alone; that is to say, each batsman is credited with the result of his batting in the matter of bringing in runs, and no account is made of fielding errors on the side of the opposing team. … These figures may, we think, be taken on the whole as a fair criterion of the value a batsman is to his team; for surely the man who hits safely when men are on bases, or who hits so hard as to compel fielding errors on the other side, is of far more value to his club than the man who earns a base for himself twice as often, and makes a weak hit or foul or strikes out when the bases are loaded. |
| Source | Chicago Tribune |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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