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.

Category relationships: Baseball, Baseball Game
Generic synonyms: Average

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fielding Average

field work
field wormwood
fieldball
fieldcraft
fielded
fielden
fielder
fielder's choice
fielders
fieldfare
fieldfares
fieldhand
fieldhands
fieldhouse
fielding
fielding average (current term)
fielding circle
fielding position
fieldings
fieldless
fieldlike
fieldline
fieldlines
fieldmice
fieldmouse
fieldpiece
fieldpieces
fields of Forel
fields of fire
fields of study

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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