Clipping:Team errors not being scored

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Date	Wednesday, September 5, 1888
Text	[from Joe Pritchard's column] Among the many scoring rules acted upon last winter in Cincinnati by the Base Ball Reporters' Association of America, was the following:--”That when a player reaches first base through an error of judgment, such as two fielders allowing the ball to drop between them, the batter shall not be credited with a base hit or the fielder charged with an error, but it shall be scored as an unaccepted chance, and the batter shall be charged with a time at bat.” In several instances during the present season I have noticed careless fielders allow fly balls to come down between them when the ball should have been easily captured while in the air, and these errors of judgment were generally scored as hits and charged up as such against a pitcher. In one of the recent Cleveland or Brooklyn games this very play came up. O'Neill and White allowed a ball to come down between them, and it was the only hit secured by the visitors.
Source	Sporting Life
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Submitted by	Richard Hershberger
Origin	Initial Hershberger Clippings

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