Spalding's Baseball Guide and Official League Book for 1895
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Spalding's Baseball Guide and Official League Book for 1895
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Not an official record, giving the data of work done in the box by the
League pitchers, furnishes any correct figures by which to judge the
good or bad work done in the box each season. We give below a series of
records which give a somewhat better idea of each pitcher's box work
than the official averages can give under the pitching rules in vogue up
to 1895. The first table gives a full, but not complete, record of the
League pitching of 1894 by those pitchers whose percentage of victories
pitched in are not less than .500. Those whose record was under .500 and
not less than .400 included the following: Inks, .478; Stratton, .476;
German, .471; Maul, .470; Hutchinson, .467; Parrott, .459; Ehret, .436;
Daub, .423; Mercer, .421; Hawley, .413, and Westervelt, .412. Of those
whose percentages were under .400 and not less than .300 were the
following: Stockdale, .375; Menafee, .351; Sullivan, .348; J. Clarkson,
.308. These were followed by McGill, .291; Terry, 278; Knell, .200, and
Wadsworth, .190. The official pitching averages, from which these
figures are taken, give no record of the pitchers who pitched in less
than 15 games during 1894, and those who pitched in 10 games and less
than 15 included pitchers having better percentages than some of those
recorded above.
Here is a record taken from the figures of the official tables, which
presents data from which a pretty fair estimate of a pitcher's ability
can be arrived at; though it is, of course, not a really correct
criterion of his box work, as it does not contain the record of the runs
earned off his pitching solely by base hits, which cannot be obtained
under the existing scoring rules:
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