New York Giants vs Chicago Cubs
May 1, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 1, 1956 at Wrigley Field. 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)
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New York Giants 2, Chicago Cubs 1

New York Giants ab   r   h rbi
Lockman lf 4 0 1 0
Dark ss 4 1 1 0
Mueller rf 4 0 0 0
Mays cf 4 1 2 1
Spencer 2b 4 0 1 0
Castleman 3b 4 0 1 0
Harris 1b 3 0 0 0
Katt c 3 0 0 0
Hearn p 3 0 0 0
Totals 33 2 6 1
Chicago Cubs ab   r   h rbi
Hoak 3b 4 1 1 1
Drake cf 4 0 0 0
Fondy 1b 4 0 2 0
Banks ss 3 0 0 0
Moryn rf 3 0 0 0
King lf 3 0 0 0
  Wade pr 0 0 0 0
  Whisenant lf 0 0 0 0
Baker 2b 2 0 1 0
Landrith c 3 0 0 0
Hacker p 2 0 0 0
  Miksis ph 1 0 0 0
  Brosnan p 0 0 0 0
Totals 29 1 4 1
New York 000 101 000262
Chicago 000 100 000142
  New York Giants IP H R ER BB SO
Hearn  W(1-1) 9.0 4 1 1 0 5
Totals
9.0
4
1
1
0
5
  Chicago Cubs IP H R ER BB SO
Hacker  L(0-2) 8.0 6 2 2 0 5
  Brosnan   1.0 0 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
6
2
2
0
5

  E–Harris (2), Hearn (1), Fondy (1), Baker (2).  DP–New York 1. Hearn-Dark-Harris.  3B–New York Mays 2 (2,off Hacker 2).  HR–Chicago Hoak (1,4th inning off Hearn 0 on 0 out).  Team LOB–4.  SH–Baker (1,off Hearn).  Team–2.  U-HP–Dusty Boggess, 1B–Hal Dixon, 2B–Tom Gorman, 3B–Babe Pinelli.  T–2:00.  A–3,330.
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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."

     

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