Clipping:Scoring stolen bases 7
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| Date | Wednesday, July 11, 1888 |
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| Text | [from Caylor's column] ...Bierbauer had a thrown ball before the runner got to second and put it down on him two feet from the base. In doing so he dropped the ball, and the base-runner crawled up to the base and was safe. To my hold astonishment I was told by Murphy and Munson (the official scorers), and every man in the newspaper box that the new scoring rule in such a case required that no error be given to the basemen, unless the base-runner gets to third on the play; but that if the error be a poor throw, the thrower must have an error. Fay, of the Republic, though scoring that way, denounced it as idiotic. I refused to believe that such a rule existed, but was assured upon the combined evidence of every scorer there that such was the case. I asked Munson why the rule excused the baseman when there was no excuse, and he said it was for the purpose of encouraging base-running. But I insisted that base-running would be just as much encouraged if the base-runner got credit for the stolen base and the baseman for the error, as they did under the rules last year. George said something about not being an earned run if the baseman got an error, and also something about the inexplicable meaning of last year's stolen base rule. At least, Bierbaur didn't get an error for the rankest misplay I ever saw at second base. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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