New York Giants vs Pittsburgh Pirates
June 29, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on June 29, 1956 at Forbes Field. The Pittsburgh Pirates 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 3, Pittsburgh Pirates 6

New York Giants ab   r   h rbi
Brandt rf,lf 5 0 0 0
White 1b 5 0 0 0
Mays cf 4 0 1 0
Rhodes lf 3 0 1 0
  Lennon rf 1 0 1 0
Spencer 2b 4 0 0 0
Sarni c 2 1 2 0
  Wilson ph 1 0 0 0
  Westrum c 0 0 0 0
Castleman 3b 3 1 1 0
Bressoud ss 3 1 1 1
Hearn p 3 0 1 1
  McCall p 0 0 0 0
  Mueller ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 35 3 8 2
Pittsburgh Pirates ab   r   h rbi
Jacobs 2b 3 0 0 0
  Long ph 1 0 0 0
  O'Brien J. 2b 0 1 0 0
Skinner 1b 4 1 2 1
Virdon cf 4 0 1 1
Thomas 3b 4 0 0 0
Walls rf 4 1 1 1
Clemente lf 4 1 1 1
Groat ss 4 0 1 0
Foiles c 3 1 2 0
Law p 2 0 1 1
  Lynch ph 1 0 1 0
  O'Brien E. pr 0 1 0 0
  Face p 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 6 10 5
New York 030 000 000382
Pittsburgh 001 100 31x6102
  New York Giants IP H R ER BB SO
Hearn  L(3-8) 6.2 8 5 2 0 4
  McCall   1.1 2 1 1 0 0
Totals
8.0
10
6
3
0
4
  Pittsburgh Pirates IP H R ER BB SO
Law  W(3-8) 7.0 7 3 3 1 2
  Face  SV(1) 2.0 1 0 0 1 0
Totals
9.0
8
3
3
2
2

  E–Bressoud (2), Hearn (3), Clemente (11), Groat (11).  DP–New York 1. Hearn-Bressoud-White, Pittsburgh 1. Groat-Jacobs-Skinner.  2B–New York Rhodes (5); Sarni (9); Bressoud (1), Pittsburgh Skinner (3,off Hearn).  3B–Pittsburgh Foiles (2,off Hearn); Lynch (1,off Hearn).  HR–Pittsburgh Clemente (3,4th inning off Hearn 0 on 2 out); Walls (7,8th inning off McCall 0 on 1 out).  HBP–Castleman (1).  Team LOB–8.  Team–4.  U-HP–Larry Goetz, 1B–Frank Dascoli, 2B–Frank Secory, 3B–Stan Landes.
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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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