Chicago Cubs vs Milwaukee Braves
April 23, 1957 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on April 23, 1957 at County Stadium. The Chicago Cubs defeated the Milwaukee Braves 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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Chicago Cubs 3, Milwaukee Braves 2

Chicago Cubs ab   r   h rbi
Wise 2b 5 0 1 1
Fondy 1b 5 0 1 0
Banks ss 4 0 1 0
Moryn rf 4 1 1 0
Baker 3b 3 0 2 1
Speake lf 4 0 0 0
Del Greco cf 3 0 0 0
Neeman c 4 2 1 1
Singleton p 1 0 0 0
  Valentinetti p 0 0 0 0
  Littlefield p 1 0 1 0
  Lown p 0 0 0 0
Totals 34 3 8 3
Milwaukee Braves ab   r   h rbi
O'Connell 2b 4 0 0 0
Aaron rf 5 1 2 0
Mathews 3b 4 0 1 0
Adcock 1b 4 0 1 0
Thomson lf 4 0 1 1
Logan ss 5 1 1 0
Bruton cf 4 0 3 1
Crandall c 4 0 0 0
Burdette p 4 0 0 0
Totals 38 2 9 2
Chicago 000 011 000 1380
Milwaukee 011 000 000 0291
  Chicago Cubs IP H R ER BB SO
Singleton   4.2 7 2 2 1 3
  Valentinetti   2.0 0 0 0 2 0
  Littlefield  W (1-0) 2.1 2 0 0 1 2
  Lown  SV (1) 1.0 0 0 0 2 1
Totals
10.0
9
2
2
6
6
  Milwaukee Braves IP H R ER BB SO
Burdette  L (1-1) 10.0 8 3 2 3 4
Totals
10.0
8
3
2
3
4

  E–Logan (1).  DP–Chicago 1. Wise-Banks-Fondy, Milwaukee 2. Adcock-Logan-Adcock, O'Connell-Logan-Adcock.  PB–Neeman (1).  2B–Chicago Fondy (2,off Burdette); Moryn (1,off Burdette)., Milwaukee Logan (1,off Singleton); Aaron (3,off Singleton)..  HR–Chicago Neeman (1,10th inning off Burdette 0 on 0 out).  SH–Singleton (1,off Burdette).  Team LOB–5.  IBB–Bruton (1,by Lown).  Team–12.  CS–Fondy (2,3rd base by Burdette/Crandall).  U-HP–Augie Donatelli, 1B–Vic Delmore, 2B–Vinnie Smith, 3B–Jocko Conlan.  T–3:04.  A–15,742.
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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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