Jan: TSL (The Sporting Life) edition of 5 May 1906 confirms the steal of home by Chance on page five. The Tribune Box Score has a few errors, but the BS in TSL...
Trent, Dave, and Sean: In looking over Willie McCovey's RBI data, I came across a series of discrepancies involving the 1961 season and his career total. On...
... mistake originated in the "official" day-by-days. I'm copying the SABR Records Committee on this. I don't know whether this issue has already been hashed...
The current Retrosheet policy is the main page has the official satistics. All of the other pages are derived from our event files for 1957-1998, 2000-2006....
Gabriel, You are correct about the situation which causes the discrepancy. We are well aware of this and it is in the detailed documentation of discrepancies ...
Dave: I've been working with Seymour "Cy" Siwoff for over 40 years and a more dedicated individual, you will never meet. One very big reason that Cy doesn't...
Jim, Thank you very much for taking the time to write this message. First of all, I completely agree with your opinion of Seymour. I am proud to call him a ...
I am not writing to testify either in favor or against the accuracy of the boxscores the Sporting News used to publish, but I can give some insight into how we...
You've got to love this. Where else but in SABR can a question about whether Willie McCovey had an RBI in a game on June 29, 1961 turn into a philosophical...
I'd just like to add one comment to the great posts by Lyle, Dave, et al. Dave mentioned that changing corrections every year would make teams, media, and...
I'd like to respectfully disagree with Trent. I teach mathematics and deal with a lot of students who are NOT mathematically gifted. If we were to tell most...
Dave: Thank you for the message and most of all the suggestions in it, which I agree with completely. I've got the box scores as they were printed in TSL ,TSN...
When people ask me questions about how many RBI someone had, or how many hits someone had, I will usually say "no one knows for sure, but the best current...
Steve: For a prime example check the box score printed in TSN for 30 September 1939 (Washington @ Philadelphia ). Joe Haynes of Washington faced 42 batters,...
Mark: You will find that most baseball statistics are Scientific, not a Hobby. The ER's, RBI's and Saves can only be proved by a PBP. However, Hits, Runs,...
The 1963 Colt .45's played 29 games in June 1963, but scored only 45 runs for the month (only 1.55 runs/game on average). I checked some of the low-scoring...
Based on the Retrosheet game logs, the Colt's do indeed hold the record. The bottom 10 with 20G: Team.YearMon G R RPG HOUNL196306 29 45 1.55172413793103 ...
Great thoughts Trent, Steve Hatcher ... From: Trent To: SABR_Records@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 6:53 AM Subject: [SABR_Records] Re: RBI...
Mark: The five year period is much better, because if there are errors......it will show up by then. Anything less than that time frame, would be much too...
SABR Baseball Records CommitteeJohn Gill Valentine is currently listed as having had a 2-10 W-L record with the 1883 Columbus AA team. However, I have him at...
John Gill Valentine is currently listed as having had a 2-10 W-L record with the 1883 Columbus AA team. However, I have him at 3-9 with wins on 5/3/83 v...
Forwarding this query which posted to the 19cBB yahoogroup, please copy David Nemec in your reply. ... From: 19cBB@yahoogroups.com On Behalf Of David Nemec ...
... The Retrosheet game log lists Valentine as the starting pitcher in those three wins. http://retrosheet.org/boxesetc/1883/VCL501883.htm So does Frank...
Valentine's official record may be short one win and one start. Vaccaro and Retrosheet do show him with 13 starts including 3 team wins where the official...
Retrosheet has a copy of the ICI film and I just checked Vallentine's record. The first thing to note is that the film has his last game as 7-31-1883 vs...
I sent my last reply before reading this one. Paul is correct that the official records show one fewer win and start, but this will not help with the loss...
And I'm even further behind! Thanks for loading this, Trent. It will help the discussion a great deal. Dave _____ From: SABR_Records@yahoogroups.com...
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