Clipping:Nearly the modern position scoring numbering
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| Date | Wednesday, May 29, 1889 |
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| Text | [from Chadwick's column] A writer in the New York Mail and Express advocates a new way of numbering the players on the score sheets. He says: “The pitcher is numbered 1 in all cases, catcher 2, first base 3, second base 4, short stop 5, third base 6, right field 7, centre field 8, and left field 9. For example, if a ball is hit to third base and the runner is thrown out at first base, without looking at the score card it is known that the numbers to be recorded are 6-3, the former getting the assist, and the first baseman the put-out. If from short stop to first, it is 5-3. If from the second baseman, it is 4=3. If a dropped third strike, and the runner is thrown out a first, it is K 1-2-3-K, indicating the strike out.” This is a faulty method, and in no respect is it an improvement on the plan which has been in vogue since the National League was organized, and that is the method used in Beadle's Dime Book of Base Ball in 1860. This plan numbers the players in their striking order, and not by their positions, for instance, take the New York order of striking Gore Tiernan and Richardson 1, 2, 3. No matter what position these players take in the field the figures always indicate them. But if you name the players by their positions, and these happen to be changed in a game, then you are all in a fog on how to change them. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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