New York Giants vs Pittsburgh Pirates
July 1, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on July 1, 1956 at Forbes Field. The New York Giants defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates 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 2
New York Giants ab   r   h rbi
Bressoud ss 5 0 1 0
White 1b 4 1 3 0
Mays cf 4 0 2 1
Rhodes lf 2 0 0 0
  Brandt lf 1 0 0 0
Sarni c 4 0 0 0
Lennon rf 4 1 3 0
Castleman 3b 4 1 2 2
Spencer 2b 4 0 0 0
Antonelli p 4 0 0 0
  Grissom p 0 0 0 0
Totals 36 3 11 3
Pittsburgh Pirates ab   r   h rbi
Jacobs 2b 4 0 2 0
Cole 3b 4 0 0 0
Walls cf 4 0 2 0
Thomas lf 4 0 0 0
Clemente rf 4 2 3 0
Groat ss 2 0 0 0
  Virdon ph 1 0 0 0
Foiles c 3 0 1 2
Skinner 1b 2 0 0 0
  Shepard ph,1b 1 0 0 0
Friend p 2 0 0 0
  Freese ph 1 0 0 0
  Face p 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 2 8 2
New York 000 012 000–3111
Pittsburgh 000 010 100–280
  New York Giants IP H R ER BB SO
Antonelli  W(7-7) 8.0 7 2 1 0 6
  Grissom  SV(2) 1.0 1 0 0 0 1
Totals
9.0
8
2
1
0
7
  Pittsburgh Pirates IP H R ER BB SO
Friend  L(11-6) 8.0 10 3 3 2 4
  Face   1.0 1 0 0 0 0
Totals
9.0
11
3
3
2
4
  E–Sarni (3).  DP–New York 1. Spencer-White.  2B–New York White (6); Mays (8); Lennon (1), Pittsburgh Jacobs (2); Foiles (3).  HR–New York Castleman (7,6th inning off Friend 1 on).  Team LOB–8.  SH–Groat (8).  SF–Foiles (1).  Team–5.  SB–White (7); Castleman (1).  U-HP–Frank Secory, 1B–Stan Landes, 2B–Larry Goetz, 3B–Frank Dascoli.
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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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