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Definition of Fielding average
1. Noun. (baseball) a measure of a fielder's performance; the number of assists and putouts divided by the number of chances.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fielding Average
Literary usage of Fielding average
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"... and assisted sixty-four times, while making fifteen errors; his fielding
average is therefore 1252 divided by 1267, or 988, 1000 being perfect fielding. ..."
2. The Town and City of Waterbury, Connecticut by Sarah Johnson Prichard (1896)
"He won the first prize in his own club for being the best batsman and his fielding
average was among the first. On June 24, 1895, he married Annie L. Durfee ..."
3. Modern Arithmetic Methods and Problems by Theodore Lindquist (1917)
"Every boy will be interested in computing his team's ranking, as well as his
individual batting and fielding average. A successful use of this material ..."
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