Clipping:The batting average denominator
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Date | Sunday, November 14, 1869 |
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Text | In making up the averages of a club’s batting, it has been proposed, as more proper and correct way, in finding the average of bases on strikes, to divide the number of times first-base made by the number of times the striker actually as at the bat, than by dividing the number of times first base made by the number of games. We think that this is the most sensible plan. The first striker in a game has generally more strikes than the ninth man, and, therefore, more opportunities of making runs; but, by the old method of computing averages, both t he first and ninth striker were placed on the same footing. |
Source | Philadelphia Sunday Mercury |
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Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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