Clipping:Scoring sacrifice hits 6
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| Date | Wednesday, November 28, 1888 |
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| Text | [reporting the NL meeting 11/21-22] In the fourth column of the score a player will get credit for a sacrifice hit every time that he advances a base-runner on other than a base hit. The error column will be used as usual. The Sporting Life November 28, 1888 [from Ren Mulford's column] “I claim,” asserted Mr. Schmelz, “that it is not base ball to try and sacrifice when there is one out and a man on first. This rule will only tend to increase the evil we want to lessen.” The Sporting Life November 28, 1888 At the recent meeting of the Board of Arbitration in Pittsburg there was present a quorum of the playing rules committee. Acting upon a suggestion which had been made to the committee by a number of well-known base ball writer, the rule for was materially amended. Under the rule adopted in New York, flies popped up in the infield and dropped, or easy bunts to the baseman not properly handled, might have been classified as sacrifice hits. This is obviated in the new rule, the language of which is as follows: “In the fourth column shall be placed sacrifice hits, which shall be credited to the batsman who, when but one man is out, advances a runner a base on a fly to the outfield or a ground hit which results in putting out the batsman, or would so result in handled without error.” The Sporting Life December 19, 1888 |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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