do the
right or correct thing each and every
time. From the sport of
baseball where the percentage of hits of the
ball by the batter is kept in 3 figures (
eg. fifty percent would be written .500 and would be said "five hundred" in the
language of the sport). Thus a person hitting 100 percent of the
time (1.000) would be batting "one thousand."
—Academy Level II Glossary app Jan 91