Clipping:Scoring base stealing averages
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| Date | Wednesday, March 17, 1886 |
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| Text | [from a columns by “Scorer”] The question now arises how are we to arrive at this comparative unit; [i.e. base stealing averages]; how are we to tell just what per cent.of stolen bases each man makes. Mr. Caylor, the presumable framer of the law, tells us in the Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette of Sunday last that “the average will be made up from times at the bat as compared with bases stolen.” Now, Mr. Editor, there's where I should join issue with him at once. Times at the bat should not enter into the matter at all. Of course a man could not steal a base until he had a time at the bat, but that is about all the connection there is between the two. Let me illustrate. … Can there be any fairness in the rule that gives one man twice the chances to steal bases on account of his ability as a batsman, and then compel the weaker batter to compare percentage of bases stolen with him? Nor is there any encouragement to a weak batter to attempt to raise his record as a base-runner when he knows he must compete with the best hitter in the team. … No, Mr. Editor, I think there has been an error here but it is, fortunately, very easily corrected. Simply have the number of times a player reaches first base, whether by hit or error, kept, and compare the number of stolen bases with that, which is the true number of chances he has to steal a base, and we shall then get some figures that will be valuable. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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