Clipping:Scoring battery errors 2
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| Date | Tuesday, February 2, 1886 |
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| Text | [from a column by Caylor] My friend Fogel, of Philadelphia, has published a column of opinion on the present system of scoring, its fairness, and its faults. One of his arguments seems to favor the League system of putting passed balls, wild pitches, and bases on called balls in the error column as the League does, and he speaks of this system as the “new way of scoring.” There he makes a mistake. It is the old system revised. The innovation in scoring was the leaving of these plays out of the errors column. The Association should take to itself much credit for standing by this fair system of scoring. Frequently last year we noticed scores in League games footing up 18 and 20 errors. Often when this was closely examined it would be discovered that four-fifths of the entire number of errors were made by the battery—were what we call battery errors. Yet the hasty reader never closely analyzes this column—merely glances at the grand total and says to himself in a very disgusted way: “What a rotten game it must have been. |
| Source | The Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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