Sport: Dow-Jones of Baseball

With the possible exception of the New York Stock Exchange, no U. S. occupation furnishes newspapers with more statistics than the game of baseball. Daily & weekly pitching, batting and fielding averages, compiled in elaborate, accurate and unintelligible code, form a regular feature of every U. S. sport page. To insure maximum attention, annual statistics are not released until the football season closes. By scanning charts, baseball addicts last week were able to find out exactly how every player in the National League performed during the summer of 1934. Leading batter was Pittsburgh's...