The First Baseball Box Score Appears In A Newspaper- This Day 1845

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Game played on Tuesday, October 21, 1975 at Fenway Park
Cincinnati Reds ab   r   h rbi
Rose 3b 5 1 2 0
Griffey rf 5 2 2 2
Morgan 2b 6 1 1 0
Bench c 6 0 1 1
Perez 1b 6 0 2 0
Foster lf 6 0 2 2
Concepcion ss 6 0 1 0
Geronimo cf 6 1 2 1
Nolan p 0 0 0 0
  Chaney ph 1 0 0 0
  Norman p 0 0 0 0
  Billingham p 0 0 0 0
  Armbrister ph 0 1 0 0
  Carroll p 0 0 0 0
  Crowley ph 1 0 1 0
  Borbon p 1 0 0 0
  Eastwick p 0 0 0 0
  McEnaney p 0 0 0 0
  Driessen ph 1 0 0 0
  Darcy p 0 0 0 0
Totals 50 6 14 6
Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Cooper 1b 5 0 0 0
  Drago p 0 0 0 0
  Miller ph 1 0 0 0
  Wise p 0 0 0 0
Doyle 2b 5 0 1 0
Yastrzemski lf,1b 6 1 3 0
Fisk c 4 2 2 1
Lynn cf 4 2 2 3
Petrocelli 3b 4 1 0 0
Evans rf 5 0 1 0
Burleson ss 3 0 0 0
Tiant p 2 0 0 0
  Moret p 0 0 0 0
  Carbo ph,lf 2 1 1 3
Totals 41 7 10 7
Cincinnati 0 0 0 0 3 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 – 6 14 0
Boston 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 1 – 7 10 1
  Cincinnati Reds IP H R ER BB SO
Nolan 2.0 3 3 3 0 2
  Norman 0.2 1 0 0 2 0
  Billingham 1.1 1 0 0 1 1
  Carroll 1.0 1 0 0 0 0
  Borbon 2.0 1 2 2 2 1
  Eastwick 1.0 2 1 1 1 2
  McEnaney 1.0 0 0 0 1 0
  Darcy  L (0-1) 2.0 1 1 1 0 1
Totals
11.0
10
7
7
7
7
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Tiant 7.0 11 6 6 2 5
  Moret 1.0 0 0 0 0 0
  Drago 3.0 1 0 0 0 1
  Wise  W (1-0) 1.0 2 0 0 0 1
Totals
12.0
14
6
6
2
7

E–Burleson (1).  DP–Cincinnati 1, Boston 1.  2B–Cincinnati Foster (1,off Tiant), Boston Doyle (1,off Norman); Evans (1,off Billingham).  3B–Cincinnati Griffey (1,off Tiant).  HR–Cincinnati Geronimo (2,8th inning off Tiant 0 on, 0 out), Boston Lynn (1,1st inning off Nolan 2 on, 2 out); Carbo (2,8th inning off Eastwick 2 on, 2 out); Fisk (2,12th inning off Darcy 0 on, 0 out).  HBP–Rose (1,by Drago).  SH–Tiant (1,off Billingham).  IBB–Fisk 2 (2,by Norman,by McEnaney).  SB–Concepcion (3,2nd base off Drago/Fisk).  HBP–Drago (1,Rose).  IBB–Norman (1,Fisk); McEnaney (1,Fisk).  U–Satch Davidson (NL), Art Frantz (AL), Nick Colosi (NL), Larry Barnett (AL), George Maloney (AL), Dick Stello (NL).  T–4:01.  A–35,205.
Game played on Tuesday, October 21, 1975 at Fenway Park

 

On this day in 1845 the first known box score appeared in the New York Morning News. This was a month after the first set of rules were written by Alexander Cartwright.

I’ve always loved reading baseball box scores. Baseball box scores are one of the few examples of objective journalism that you will read in a newspaper or anywhere for that matter.

The box score that I used as an example- from the greatest baseball game I’ve ever seen, Game 6 of the 1975 World Series.

One response to “The First Baseball Box Score Appears In A Newspaper- This Day 1845”

  1. i always enjoyed the nuances of the agate box. even if they are getting more and more complicated – number of pitches seen by batter etc, still awesome to see.
    i remember reading an article about baseball writer tim kurkjian about how he used to cut out and save the box scores in notebooks as his hobby.

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