Chicago White Sox vs Cleveland Indians
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 Cleveland Stadium. The Cleveland Indians defeated the Chicago White 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)
Baseball Almanac Box Scores

Chicago White Sox 1, Cleveland Indians 6

Chicago White Sox ab   r   h rbi
Rivera rf 5 0 0 1
Fox 2b 4 0 1 0
Minoso lf 3 0 0 0
Doby cf 4 0 1 0
Philley 1b 4 0 0 0
Hatfield 3b 4 0 0 0
Moss c 2 1 0 0
  Delsing ph 1 0 1 0
Aparicio ss 4 0 1 0
Donovan p 2 0 0 0
  Northey ph 1 0 1 0
  Phillips pr 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 1 5 1
Cleveland Indians ab   r   h rbi
Strickland 2b 3 1 0 0
Woodling lf 4 0 1 0
Smith rf 3 0 1 1
Wertz 1b 3 0 1 0
  Ward 1b 0 0 0 0
Rosen 3b 3 1 1 0
Busby cf 4 1 1 0
Carrasquel ss 4 1 1 1
Hegan c 4 1 1 1
Lemon p 4 1 1 2
Totals 32 6 8 5
Chicago 010 000 000150
Cleveland 100 203 00x682
  Chicago White Sox IP H R ER BB SO
Donovan  L(4-3) 8.0 8 6 6 3 6
Totals
8.0
8
6
6
3
6
  Cleveland Indians IP H R ER BB SO
Lemon  W(10-5) 9.0 5 1 1 3 5
Totals
9.0
5
1
1
3
5

  E–Hegan (3), Lemon (1).  PB–Moss 2 (2).  2B–Cleveland Busby (12,off Donovan); Smith (13,off Donovan); Carrasquel (8,off Donovan).  HR–Cleveland Lemon (3,6th inning off Donovan 1 on 1 out).  Team LOB–9.  SF–Smith (6,off Donovan).  IBB–Wertz (7,by Donovan).  Team–6.  U-HP–Red Flaherty, 1B–John Rice, 2B–Bill Summers, 3B–Bill McKinley.  T–2:16.  A–31,857.
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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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