--- In SABR_Records@yahoogroups.com, Paul Wendt <pgw@...> wrote:
>
> 23 Apr 2006, Trent McCotter <treant985@...> wrote:
> Hamilton is listed by ICI.....>
> I just noticed the change from 192 runs to 198. Is that covered in a
> 21st century number of the newsletter?
> Paul Wendt

I don't think it was covered in any of the 19th century or Records
Committee Newsletters, but I may be wrong. The six runs come from
protested games that the NL counted in the stats in 1894, but that ICI
forgot to count when they compiled their totals in 1969. ICI came up
with 192 runs for Hamilton not counting the protested games, then he
scored 6 more in the three protested games in which he played that
year. He went 0-for-3 in one of those protested games to negate
the "36 game" hitting streak that he had been credited with for some
time; that correction was covered in the February 2004 Records
Committee Newsletter.

Pete Palmer was the first to show corrected totals for all the players
involved in protested games from the early 1890s to the early 1900s,
all of which were left out by ICI. That's also why Delahanty's avg
dropped a little bit in one season (but still above .400), and Sam
Thompson's increased to something like .415 in 1894.

I haven't heard anything back from Steve Hirdt at Elias as to whether
they believe he scored a run in that game for which ICI shows no run
scored. Elias still shows Hamilton with 196 runs scored, which is the
total last used in 1968 before MacMillan 1.

Trent McCotter