New York Giants vs Brooklyn Dodgers
May 12, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 12, 1956 at Ebbets Field. The Brooklyn Dodgers 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)
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New York Giants 0, Brooklyn Dodgers 3
New York Giants ab   r   h rbi
Lockman rf 4 0 0 0
Dark ss 3 0 0 0
Mays cf 2 0 0 0
Rhodes lf 3 0 0 0
Spencer 2b 3 0 0 0
White 1b 3 0 0 0
Castleman 3b 2 0 0 0
  Mueller ph 1 0 0 0
  Thompson 3b 0 0 0 0
Katt c 3 0 0 0
Worthington p 2 0 0 0
  Grissom p 0 0 0 0
  Wilson ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 27 0 0 0
Brooklyn Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Gilliam 2b 4 0 1 0
Reese ss 3 2 1 0
Snider cf 3 1 2 1
Campanella c 4 0 1 1
Hodges 1b 3 0 0 0
Robinson 3b 2 0 0 1
Amoros lf 4 0 0 0
Furillo rf 2 0 0 0
Erskine p 4 0 1 0
Totals 29 3 6 3
New York 000 000 000–000
Brooklyn 001 000 20x–360
  New York Giants IP H R ER BB SO
Worthington  L(1-3) 6.1 6 3 3 7 4
  Grissom   1.2 0 0 0 0 1
Totals
8.0
6
3
3
7
5
  Brooklyn Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Erskine  W(2-2) 9.0 0 0 0 2 3
Totals
9.0
0
0
0
2
3
  E–None.  2B–Brooklyn Erskine (1,off Worthington); Snider (3,off Worthington)..  Team LOB–2.  Team–9.  U-HP–Augie Donatelli, 1B–Dusty Boggess, 2B–Tom Gorman, 3B–Babe Pinelli.
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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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