* SB %— Stolen base percentage: the percentage of bases stolen successfully.

The all-time stolen base leader, Rickey Henderson, swipes third in 1988.

In baseball, a stolen base most often occurs when a baserunner successfully advances to the next base while the pitcher is delivering the ball to home plate.

If the defense makes no attempt to put the baserunner out ( for example, if the catcher doesn't even look his way ), the play is scored as defensive indifference ( also called fielder's indifference ), and no stolen base is credited to the runner.

Defensive indifference is generally only scored instead of a stolen base when the game is in a late inning and the team with the stealing baserunner is down by more than one run.

The scoring and criteria for awarding a stolen base to a runner are covered by rule 10. 07 of the Major League Baseball rule book.

Ned Cuthbert, playing for the Philadelphia Keystones in either 1863 or 1865, is documented as the first baseball player to steal a base in a baseball game, although the term stolen base was not used until 1871.

For a time in the 19th century, stolen bases were credited when a baserunner reached an extra base on a base hit from another player.

But the tactic fell into relative disuse after Babe Ruth introduced the era of the home run – in 1955, for example, no one in baseball stole more than 25 bases, and Dom DiMaggio won the AL stolen base title in 1950 with just 15.

The stolen base remained a popular tactic through the 1980s, perhaps best exemplified by Vince Coleman and the St. Louis Cardinals, but began to decline again in the 1990s as the frequency of home runs reached unprecedented heights and the steal-friendly artificial turf ballparks began to disappear.

Second base is the base most often stolen.

Third base is generally stolen off the pitcher, since a bigger lead is possible off second base.

However, some of the more successful American League teams of recent memory, including the 2002 Anaheim Angels, the 2001 Seattle Mariners and the 2005 Chicago White Sox have experienced their success in part as a result of playing " small ball ," advancing runners through means such as the stolen base and the related hit and run play.

Noted statistician Bill James has argued that unless a player can steal a high percentage of the time, then the stolen base is not useful, and can even be detrimental to a team.

Carlos Beltrán, with 286 steals, has the highest career success rate of all players with over 300 stolen base attempts, at 88. 3 %.

The first mention of the stolen base, in a statistical sense was in the 1877 scoring rules adopted by the National League which noted credit toward a player's total bases when a base is stolen.

It was not until 1886 that the stolen base appeared as something to be tracked, but was only to " appear in the summary of the game ".

He was a captain, he said, in the army, and on the train to New York his purse and all his money had been stolen, and would I lend him twenty-five dollars to be given him at the General Delivery window??

In 1887, Hugh Nicol set a still-standing Major League record with 138 stolen bases, many of which would not have counted under modern rules.

Without using the term, 1920 saw the first rule that would be referred to today as defensive indifference, as stolen bases would not be credited, unless an effort was made to stop the runner by the defense.

Power was given to the official scorer, in the event of a muff by the catcher in throwing, that in the judgment of the scorer the runner would have been out, to credit the catcher with an error, and not credit the runner with a stolen base.

Runners who are tagged out oversliding the base after an otherwise successful steal would not be credited with a stolen base.

Runners would now be credited with stolen bases if they had begun the act of stealing, and the resulting pitch was wild, or a passed ball.

Finally, for 1950 only, runners would be credited with a stolen base if they were " well advanced " toward the base they were attempting to steal ", and the pitcher is charged with a balk, with the further exception of a player attempting to steal, who would otherwise have been forced to advance on the balk by a runner behind them.

If a merchant received a loan to fund his shipment, he would pay the lender an additional sum in exchange for the lender's guarantee to cancel the loan should the shipment be stolen or lost at sea.

Drummer Marky Ramone thought Joey would appreciate the fact that his sign would be the most stolen adding " Now you have to be an NBA player to see it.

Abdul Hakim Misaq, the Mayor of Kabul, even stated that traffickers of stolen goods would not be prosecuted by law as long as their goods were given to the market.

The former were funded by private individuals and organisations and the latter by privately funded rewards for catching criminals, who would then be compelled to return stolen property or pay restitution.

To that end, the Court ruled in Dumbra v. United States,, that the term probable cause means " less than evidence that would justify condemnation ," reiterating Carroll's assertion that it merely requires that the facts available to the officer would " warrant a man of reasonable caution " in the belief that specific items may be contraband or stolen property or useful as evidence of a crime.

If property was stolen, or someone was injured or killed, the guilty person would have to pay weregild as restitution to the victim's family or to the owner of the property.

For example, if a citizen had his clothes stolen at the baths, he would write a curse, naming the suspects, on a tablet to be read by the Goddess Sulis Minerva.

Opponents say that such a market would encourage criminals by making it easier for them to claim that their stolen organs were legal.

When he declared he would marry no other, his mother, Queen Mary, visited Glamis to see for herself the girl who had stolen her son's heart.

Aslan informs Digory that a stolen apple would have healed his mother, but at a terrible price: anyone who steals the apples gets their heart's desire, but it comes in a form that makes it unlikeable.

The sceptre was stolen, in the hope Muskar would abdicate.

If the goods were stolen and the rightful owner reclaimed them, he had to prove his purchase by producing the seller and the deed of sale, or witnesses to it ; otherwise, he would be adjudged a thief and die.

A man who bought a slave abroad might find that he had previously been stolen or captured from Babylonia ; he would then have to restore him to his former owner without recompense.

Anarchists argue that the state is an initiation of force because force can be used against those who have not stolen private property, vandalized private property, assaulted anyone, or committed fraud.

" The Chicago Daily Tribune called it “ One of the most spectacular crimes of the 20th century, and what is believed to be the first airplane kidnap murder on record .” Because it occurred somewhere over three Missouri counties, and involved interstate transport of a stolen airplane, it raised questions in legal circles about where, by whom, and even whether he could be prosecuted.

Under the new rule, when any runner is thrown out, and the other ( s ) are successful, the successful runners will not be credited with a stolen base.

The stolen base was specifically to be credited " to a runner whenever he advances one base unaided by a base hit, a putout, a forceout, a fielder's choice, a passed ball, a wild pitch, or a balk.

The backup media should be moved between the geographic sites in a secure manner, in order to prevent them from being stolen.

The conversion of the original design drawings into drawings suitable for engineering manufacturers ' use revealed some minor errors in Babbage's design ( possibly introduced as a protection in case the plans were stolen ), which had to be corrected.

Like resources, commodities are associated with a type of terrain, can be stolen by the robber ( with Seafarers, also the pirate ), count against the resource hand limit, and may not be collected if the robber is on the terrain.

The scabbard is stolen by Morgan le Fay and thrown into a lake, never to be found again.

* Gentlemen of Fortune, a kindergarten principal played by Evgeni Leonov pretends to be a criminal boss called the Professor ( who looks exactly like him ) in order to gain information about a stolen artifact from the Professor's two lackeys.

The first search when anything was stolen, was there, and when any couple had a mind to retire to be wicked there was their harbour.

It was claimed Aristide had stolen tens of millions dollars from the country, though specific bank account documents proving this have yet to be presented.

As such, UINs that are stolen can sometimes be reclaimed.

Information may be stolen in transit, in taxis, at airport baggage counters, baggage carousels, on trains and so on.