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Originally Posted by milkit1
When were bunts officially kept track of in terms of bunts as hits? The reason I ask is I saw a top 10 hunters of all time list and it had no deadball era hitters. That seemed odd to me. Is it possible that bunting percentage wasn't kept track of until later?
Thanks
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Batters were exempted from being charged with at-bats if they executed a successful sacrifice bunt starting in 1894. Baseball-reference.com includes sacrifice hit statistics for batters starting with that year.
The top single-season sacrifice hit total was 67 by Ray Chapman in 1917, and Bill Bradley had 60 in 1908. The nine highest totals and 18 of the highest 20 were all from 1920 or earlier (the other two were in 1921 and 1924).
I'm not sure if this answers your question.