Chicago Cubs vs New York Giants
May 23, 1934 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 23, 1934 at Polo Grounds V. The New York Giants defeated the Chicago Cubs and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

"The box score is the catechism of baseball, ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye." - Author Stanley Cohen in The Man in the Crowd (1981)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

Chicago Cubs 2, New York Giants 5

Chicago Cubs ab   r   h rbi
English 3b 5 1 1 0
Galan 2b 4 1 1 1
Klein rf 3 0 0 0
Cuyler cf 4 0 2 0
Stainback lf 4 0 1 1
Grimm 1b 4 0 1 0
Jurges ss 4 0 1 0
Tate c 4 0 0 0
Bush p 2 0 1 0
  Herman ph 1 0 1 0
  Joiner p 0 0 0 0
  Phelps ph 1 0 1 0
Totals 36 2 10 2
New York Giants ab   r   h rbi
Moore lf 4 1 2 0
Critz 2b 4 0 0 0
Terry 1b 3 1 1 0
Ott rf 4 1 2 2
Jackson ss 3 1 1 0
Watkins cf 4 1 2 1
Ryan 3b 4 0 0 0
Mancuso c 2 0 0 1
Schumacher p 3 0 0 0
Totals 31 5 8 4
Chicago 000 002 0002101
New York 210 011 00x580
  Chicago Cubs IP H R ER BB SO
Bush  L(7-1) 6.0 7 5 4 2 3
  Joiner   2.0 1 0 0 0 0
Totals
8.0
8
5
4
2
3
  New York Giants IP H R ER BB SO
Schumacher  W(5-3) 9.0 10 2 2 1 4
Totals
9.0
10
2
2
1
4

  E–Jurges (9).  DP–Chicago 1. Galan-Jurges-Grimm, New York 1. Ryan-Critz-Terry.  2B–Chicago English (12); Phelps (2), New York Jackson (6); Watkins 2 (7).  3B–Chicago Babe Herman (1).  HR–New York Ott (9,1st inning off Bush 1 on).  Team LOB–8.  SH–Jackson (1).  Team–5.  SB–Moore (1).  U–Bill Klem, Bill Stewart, Beans Reardon.
Baseball Almanac Box Score | Printer Friendly Box Scores


The player names and pitcher names in the box score above can be clicked and their comprehensive single season & career statistics will be shown. If you would like to see a complete roster for either team, simply click the team name.

Did you know that you can order an "original" print copy of this same box score from Baseball Almanac? The print source might be USA Today Baseball Weekly, The Sporting News, New York Times, Cleveland Plain Dealer, or other similar sources. Regardless, it will look great framed on your wall.

Fred Schwed, Jr., in How to Watch a Baseball Game (1957) wrote our favorite baseball box score quote, "The baseball box score is the pithiest form of written communication in America today. It is abbreviated history. It is two or three hours (the box score even gives that item to the minute) of complex activity, virtually inscribed on the head of a pin, yet no knowing reader suffers from eyestrain."

     

Baseball Almanac on Facebook