Boston Red Sox vs Kansas City Athletics
June 24, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on June 24, 1956 at Municipal Stadium. The Kansas City Athletics defeated the Boston Red Sox 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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Boston Red Sox 2, Kansas City Athletics 5

Boston Red Sox ab   r   h rbi
Piersall cf 4 0 1 0
Klaus 3b 4 0 0 0
Williams lf 3 1 2 1
Gernert 1b 4 0 0 0
Jensen rf 4 1 2 1
Lepcio 2b 4 0 0 0
White c 3 0 1 0
Buddin ss 3 0 0 0
Sisler p 2 0 0 0
  Bolling ph 1 0 0 0
  Kiely p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 2 6 2
Kansas City Athletics ab   r   h rbi
DeMaestri ss 4 0 0 0
Lopez 3b 3 1 0 0
Slaughter rf 3 1 2 0
Simpson cf 4 2 2 3
Power 1b 4 1 2 2
Thompson c 3 0 1 0
Zernial lf 3 0 1 0
Boyer 2b 3 0 0 0
Kellner p 3 0 1 0
Totals 30 5 9 5
Boston 100 000 100260
Kansas City 301 001 00x590
  Boston Red Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Sisler  L(3-3) 7.0 8 5 5 2 2
  Kiely   1.0 1 0 0 0 1
Totals
8.0
9
5
5
2
3
  Kansas City Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Kellner  W(5-2) 9.0 6 2 2 1 7
Totals
9.0
6
2
2
1
7

  E–None.  DP–Boston 2. Klaus-Lepcio-Gernert, Lepcio-Buddin-Gernert, Kansas City 1. DeMaestri-Boyer-Power.  3B–Kansas City Simpson (8,off Sisler).  HR–Boston Williams (2,1st inning off Kellner 0 on 2 out); Jensen (9,7th inning off Kellner 0 on 0 out), Kansas City Simpson (11,3rd inning off Sisler 0 on 2 out); Power (4,6th inning off Sisler 0 on 2 out)..  Team LOB–4.  Team–3.  U-HP–Eddie Rommel, 1B–Frank Tabacchi, 2B–Johnny Stevens, 3B–Ed Runge.  T–1:50.  A–16,332.
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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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