Clipping:Scoring sacrifice hits and batting average

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Date Saturday, June 7, 1890
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On account of the way clubs are going in for sacrifice hitting, batting averages will mean little this year. If the players tried for hits every time they went to the bat, base hits thus computed might mean something, but the intelligent player of to-day plays ball for his side, and does not care for a batting average as long as he can help his club to win a game. If the readers of the papers that print batting averages were to examine also the sacrifice record, and put the two together, the true value of the player as a batsman will be ascertained.

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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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