* 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.

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 ".

This program remained in place until it was revealed to the public in 1971, after the theft of many internal documents stolen from an office in Media, Pennsylvania, and was the cause of some of the harshest criticism of Hoover and the FBI.

However, several of Ní Mháille's other demands ( i. e. the return of the cattle and land that Bingham had stolen from her, for instance ) remained unmet, and within a rather short period of time, Elizabeth sent Bingham back to Ireland.

Leavenworth remained the county seat until 1896, when the county records were stolen by a mob in a notorious armed “ courthouse war " against the town of English.

The plaque was stolen by vandals in the 1980s, and an abbreviated version of the text was inscribed on the indentation left in the boulder, which remained until the 1990s, when a granite pedestal was added in front of the boulder, and the bust was moved to the top of the pedestal.

This marker remained at least until the early part of 1882 before it was stolen or shot to pieces.

The headstone marking their grave was stolen and the grave has since remained unmarked.

Around the same time Bede's own remains were stolen from Monkwearmouth-Jarrow for Durham, by a " notably underhand trick ", and placed in Cuthbert's coffin, where they remained until 1104.

From there it was stolen and remained unseen for the next 20 years.

Whenever the female captives were pregnant, their children were stolen away right after giving birth, while they themselves remained detained.

One bag was stolen in a diversion, while the robber remained on the train disguised as one of the emergency staff, and the money had been dispersed by throwing it off of the train at various locations throughout the country to be collected by the robbers.

First, Blackbeard had stolen the food and supplies he and his men needed to subsist ( one pirate testified at his trial that no more than ten or eleven barrels remained aboard the Revenge ).

Although in fact some smaller items were stolen and smuggled across Iran's borders, the bulk of the collection remained intact.

According to Branca, Thomson admitted to accepting the stolen signs during his first three at-bats of that game, but claimed that he did not do so in the final at-bat ; Branca indicated that he did not believe Thomson's denials and remained convinced that Thomson was in fact tipped off on the fateful pitch.

The Crown is stolen and returned by Lemurian agents to the possession of Naga, who it is revealed has remained immortal despite his loss of the Crown centuries earlier.

According to popular conception, pirates often buried their stolen fortunes in remote places, intending to return for them later ( often with the use of treasure maps ).

Gold phones used to be very popular and were installed generally in large restaurants / cafes, small shopping centres and other places where there were staff ( as the phones were easily vandalised or even stolen due to their compact size ) and there wasn't a need for such a big full size payphone.

In general the one-time-use camera represents a return to the business model pioneered by Kodak for their KODAK camera, predecessor to the Brownie camera ; they are particularly popular in situations where a reusable camera would be easily stolen or damaged, when one's regular camera is forgotten, or if one cannot afford a regular camera.

With the dawn of the 1960s and government restrictions on travel to India original compositions became in vogue in film music though a few popular films continued to tout stolen melodies under the hands of music arrangers like P. L. A. Somapala and Mohomed Sally.

A factor which helped make this the case was the fact that the MK2 Cavalier was one of the most stolen cars of the 1980s and early 1990s and were particularly popular with joyriders because of their better than average performance for a car of its type and the fact it was easy to break into and start forcibly, which brought about the early demise of some.

Indeed, popular perception of a stolen election actually helped bring about the civil war the Commonwealth Observer Group may have feared.

Despite being the most popular sporting model in Britain for most of its production life, the third generation Capri was also one of the most stolen cars in Britain during the 1980s and early 1990s, being classified as " high risk " of theft in a Home Office report.

* All the signs of the Dutch village Maaskantje were stolen since the New Kids comedy sketch show on Comedy Central ( which is situated in the village ) became popular ( both in the Netherlands and Germany ).

He argues that " until the term ‘ stolen generations ’ first appeared in 1981, there had been no popular tradition among Aboriginal people that employed either the term or the concept.

According to popular conception, criminals and others often buried their stolen fortunes in remote places, intending to return for them later, often with the use of treasure maps.

But in court, while Weaver maintains his innocence, the confessions are mysteriously found to be stolen, and the popular Chicago players are found not guilty.

DJ Carl Blaze, who was a popular DJ at Power 105. 1 for over three years, was fatally shot outside an apartment building near Manhattan's Inwood section on December 7, 2006 about 4: 30 AM and his $ 20, 000 diamond chain was stolen from him.

Forcing Jess to relinquish his gun and to go with them to their hideout in the mountains, Vince later tells him that the gang had stolen a gold-plated cannon that was used by Emperor Maximilian in his ill-fated fight against popular Mexican leader Benito Juarez.

Yuki's hard-earned entrance money is stolen, and she joins a band of street musicians as a vocalist, soon becoming popular on the streets and online.

The brothers investigate a very strange mystery about a popular girl's stolen identity

One is that the number 69 has certain sexual meanings in popular culture, and the signs kept getting stolen.

" The tankard that Pete was often seen drinking from in pub scenes was allegedly so popular that Peter Dean reported it was stolen twice by fans and he had to replace it on both occasions.