Clipping:The denominator in batting average
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| Date | Sunday, January 24, 1875 |
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| Text | It is the wish of every club so to arrange its players as to bring the best batsmen oftenest to the bat; therefore, as a general rule, the best batsmen head the list. The effect of this arrangement is to give the three players heading the list a better chance than those below them; and therefore in making up the averages at the close of the season, the only proper mether would be to give the percentage of runs or base hits to times at the bat, and a correspondent has called our attention to the fact of the omission of the same in the averages of the Philadelphia as published last week; and in reply we would state that it is simply impossible to give the number of times at the bat unless access is had to the score-book of the club whose averages are given, which we did not have in the case of the Philadelphia Club. Every professional club should have a regular scorer competent to attend to a correct recording of every particular of a game, as a true record of the fielding and batting is essential to the success of a club, and absolutely indispensable to those who wish to know the relative merits of individuals or clubs. The first three men have almost invariably one more chance at the bat in each game than the others, and it gives them an advantage if the average is computed by base hits to games, as is proved in the instance of McGeary, the second striker of the Athletics, being second in hits to games and fourth in averages of times at bal. |
| Source | Philadelphia Sunday Mercury |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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