Clipping:Proposed scoring RBIs, sacrifices
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| Date | Wednesday, February 3, 1886 |
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| Text | [from the Louisville correspondent] The Philadelphia Press has a article on scoring in last Sunday's issue which had many good points. The main argument of the article is to add a new column to the score in which an account of sacrifice hits and hits which assist in making a run may be scored. This, I think, is an excellent plan; they go further and suggest that a half hit be given for each hit as described above. This, I think would be wrong, as the score should be an exact account of the play, and two sacrifice hits do not make one base hit any more than do four base hits by a player always make a run. The players' average could be made the same as now, when total bases are considered on his averages for safe hits, or average for total bases or average for safe hits and sacrifice hits. The latter would be the true criterion to judge a batsman by. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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