New York Giants vs Cincinnati Redlegs
June 3, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on June 3, 1956 at Crosley Field. The Cincinnati Redlegs defeated the New York Giants and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."

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New York Giants 3, Cincinnati Redlegs 7

New York Giants ab   r   h rbi
Lockman lf 5 0 1 0
Dark ss 5 0 2 0
Mays cf 4 0 1 2
Wilson rf 3 0 0 0
White 1b 4 0 1 0
Thompson 3b 4 0 2 0
Spencer 2b 4 1 1 0
Katt c 4 0 0 0
Antonelli p 2 1 1 0
  Mueller ph 1 1 1 1
  Wilhelm p 0 0 0 0
  Rhodes ph 0 0 0 0
Totals 36 3 10 3
Cincinnati Redlegs ab   r   h rbi
Temple 2b 3 1 1 0
Robinson lf 4 2 2 2
Bell cf 3 0 0 0
Kluszewski 1b 3 1 0 1
Post rf 3 1 1 1
Jablonski 3b 4 1 2 2
Bailey c 4 0 2 0
McMillan ss 4 0 2 0
Klippstein p 3 1 0 0
Totals 31 7 10 6
New York 002 000 1003102
Cincinnati 012 002 20x7100
  New York Giants IP H R ER BB SO
Antonelli  L(4-4) 6.0 7 5 4 2 3
  Wilhelm   2.0 3 2 2 1 3
Totals
8.0
10
7
6
3
6
  Cincinnati Redlegs IP H R ER BB SO
Klippstein  W(5-2) 9.0 10 3 3 2 1
Totals
9.0
10
3
3
2
1

  E–Spencer (5), Katt (4).  DP–New York 2. White-Dark-White, White-Dark-White, Cincinnati 1. Temple-McMillan-Kluszewski.  2B–New York Thompson 2 (4,off Klippstein 2); Dark (12,off Klippstein)., Cincinnati Post (5,off Antonelli).  HR–New York Mueller (4,7th inning off Klippstein 0 on 0 out), Cincinnati Jablonski (11,6th inning off Antonelli 1 on 1 out); Robinson (10,7th inning off Wilhelm 1 on 1 out).  Team LOB–8.  SH–Bell (4,off Antonelli).  SF–Kluszewski (3,off Antonelli).  Team–5.  U-HP–Frank Secory, 1B–Stan Landes, 2B–Larry Goetz, 3B–Frank Dascoli.  T–2:00.
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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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