Detroit Tigers vs Kansas City Athletics
April 16, 1957 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 16, 1957 at Municipal Stadium. The Kansas City Athletics defeated the Detroit Tigers 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 1, Kansas City Athletics 2

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Bolling 2b 4 0 0 0
Finigan 3b 2 0 0 0
  Torgeson ph 1 0 0 0
  Bertoia 3b 0 0 0 0
Kuenn ss 4 0 1 0
Kaline rf 3 1 0 0
Maxwell lf 3 0 1 1
Boone 1b 4 0 1 0
Tuttle cf 3 0 0 0
  Small ph 1 0 0 0
Wilson c 2 0 1 0
Lary p 2 0 0 0
  Robinson ph 1 0 0 0
Totals 30 1 4 1
Kansas City Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Graff 2b 4 0 0 0
Lopez 3b 4 0 1 0
Zernial lf 3 1 2 1
  Groth ph,rf 1 0 0 0
Simpson 1b 4 0 0 0
Skizas rf,lf 3 0 0 0
Smith c 3 0 0 0
Cerv cf 2 0 2 0
  Pisoni ph,cf 1 1 1 0
Morgan p 1 0 0 0
DeMaestri ss 3 0 1 1
Totals 29 2 7 2
Detroit 000 000 010140
Kansas City 000 001 10x270
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Lary  L (0-1) 8.0 7 2 2 1 4
Totals
8.0
7
2
2
1
4
  Kansas City Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Morgan  W (1-0) 9.0 4 1 1 4 3
Totals
9.0
4
1
1
4
3

  E–None.  2B–Detroit Wilson (1,off Morgan).  3B–Detroit Maxwell (1,off Morgan).  HR–Kansas City Zernial (1,6th inning off Lary 0 on 0 out).  SH–Lary (1,off Morgan); Morgan 2 (2,off Lary 2).  HBP–Maxwell (1,by Morgan).  Team LOB–8.  Team–6.  U-HP–Charlie Berry, 1B–Bill McKinley, 2B–Hank Soar, 3B–Frank Tabacchi.  T–2:23.  A–24,457.
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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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