1867.6

Batters' "Hits" First Appear in a Game Report

Salience	Noteworthy
Tags	Stats and Box ScoresStats and Box Scores
Location
City/State/Country:	New York, NY, US
Modern Address
Game	Base BallBase Ball
Immediacy of Report	Contemporary
Age of Players	AdultAdult
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Text	In the first issue of The Ball Players’ Chronicle, edited by Henry Chadwick, a game account of the “Championship of New England” between the Harvard College Club and the Lowell Club of Boston featured a box score that included a list of the number of “Bases Made on Hits” by each player. This was the first instance of player’s hit totals being tracked in a game.
Sources	The Ball Players' Chronicle (New York City, NY), 6 June 1867: p. 2.
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Query	Do we know if Hits were defined in about the way we would define them today? Edit with form to add a query
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Submitted by	Colin Dew-Becker
Submission Note	Email of 9/15/2014
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