New York Giants vs Chicago Cubs
September 11, 1955 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 11, 1955 at Wrigley Field. The Chicago Cubs defeated the New York Giants 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

New York Giants 5, Chicago Cubs 7
New York Giants ab   r   h rbi
Gardner ss 5 1 0 0
Mueller rf 5 1 1 2
Mays cf 3 1 2 3
Rhodes lf 2 0 1 0
  Gordon ph,lf 1 0 0 0
Thompson 3b 4 0 1 0
Harris 1b 3 0 0 0
Terwilliger 2b 4 1 1 0
Katt c 4 0 0 0
Monzant p 1 0 0 0
  Giel p 0 0 0 0
  Coan ph 1 0 1 0
  Wilhelm p 0 0 0 0
  Taylor ph 1 1 1 0
  Grissom p 0 0 0 0
  Hearn p 0 0 0 0
  Hofman ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 35 5 8 5
Chicago Cubs ab   r   h rbi
Fondy 1b 4 3 3 0
Baker 2b 4 1 2 3
Baumholtz lf 4 0 1 0
  Merriman lf 0 0 0 0
Banks ss 5 1 2 3
Jackson 3b 4 0 0 0
Miksis rf 4 1 3 0
Bolger cf 4 0 2 0
Chiti c 3 0 0 1
Hacker p 3 0 0 0
  Perkowski p 0 1 0 0
Totals 35 7 13 7
New York 000 002 300–581
Chicago 100 211 02x–7131
  New York Giants IP H R ER BB SO
Monzant   3.1 7 3 3 0 2
  Giel   1.2 2 1 1 1 0
  Wilhelm   1.0 2 1 1 0 0
  Grissom  L(5-4) 1.1 1 2 2 2 1
  Hearn   0.2 1 0 0 1 0
Totals
8.0
13
7
7
4
3
  Chicago Cubs IP H R ER BB SO
Hacker   6.2 8 5 5 2 4
  Perkowski  W(3-4) 2.1 0 0 0 1 2
Totals
9.0
8
5
5
3
6
  E–Gardner (10).  DP–New York 1. Katt-Thompson.  PB–Katt (16).  2B–New York Mueller (16); Mays (15).  HR–New York Mays (43,6th inning off Hacker 1 on).  Team LOB–6.  SB–Mays (19).  U-HP–Larry Goetz, 1B–Frank Dascoli, 2B–Frank Secory, 3B–Lon Warneke.
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

Copyright © 2000-2013. All Rights Reserved by Baseball-Almanac. Privacy Policy.Design by Geisler Young. Web hosting by Hosting 4 Less.
Part of the Baseball Almanac family: 755 Home Runs | Baseball Box Scores | Baseball Fever | Football Almanac | Pigskin Fever | Today in Baseball History.