Detroit Tigers vs Kansas City Athletics
June 28, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on June 28, 1956 at Municipal Stadium. The Detroit Tigers defeated the Kansas City Athletics 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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Detroit Tigers 4, Kansas City Athletics 0

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Kuenn ss 4 2 3 2
  Hicks ss 1 0 0 0
Brideweser 2b 4 0 2 0
Maxwell lf 4 0 1 0
Kaline rf 4 0 0 0
Kennedy 3b 4 0 0 0
Phillips 1b 4 1 1 0
Tuttle cf 4 0 1 0
Wilson c 3 1 1 1
Trucks p 4 0 1 1
Totals 36 4 10 4
Kansas City Athletics ab   r   h rbi
DeMaestri ss 4 0 2 0
Slaughter rf 3 0 0 0
Robinson 1b 3 0 0 0
Simpson cf 4 0 1 0
Power lf 4 0 1 0
Ginsberg c 3 0 1 0
Finigan 3b,2b 4 0 1 0
Boyer 2b 2 0 0 0
  Thompson ph 1 0 0 0
  Lopez 3b 0 0 0 0
McMahan p 3 0 0 0
  Crimian p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 0 6 0
Detroit 001 000 0124100
Kansas City 000 000 000061
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Trucks  W(3-2) 9.0 6 0 0 3 3
Totals
9.0
6
0
0
3
3
  Kansas City Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
McMahan  L(0-1) 8.1 9 4 4 1 2
  Crimian   0.2 1 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
10
4
4
1
2

  E–Robinson (3).  DP–Detroit 2. Brideweser-Kuenn-Phillips, Brideweser-Phillips, Kansas City 1. Finigan-Boyer-Robinson.  2B–Kansas City Ginsberg (6,off Trucks).  HR–Detroit Kuenn 2 (5,3rd inning off McMahan 0 on 2 out,8th inning off McMahan 0 on 2 out).  Team LOB–6.  Team–7.  U-HP–Larry Napp, 1B–Frank Umont, 2B–Charlie Berry, 3B–Jim Honochick.  T–2:10.  A–9,349.
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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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