Detroit Tigers vs Kansas City Athletics
May 26, 1957 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on May 26, 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 3

Detroit Tigers ab   r   h rbi
Kuenn ss 4 0 0 0
Dittmer 3b 4 0 0 0
Bolling 2b 4 0 1 0
Maxwell lf 4 0 0 0
Boone 1b 4 1 1 0
House c 3 0 0 0
  Samford pr 0 0 0 0
Tuttle cf 4 0 0 0
Porter rf 1 0 0 0
Maas p 3 0 1 1
Totals 31 1 3 1
Kansas City Athletics ab   r   h rbi
Power 1b 4 0 0 0
Cerv cf 3 0 0 0
  Graff 2b 0 0 0 1
Zernial lf 3 1 2 1
Simpson rf 4 0 0 0
  Groth rf 0 0 0 0
Skizas 3b 3 1 1 0
  Pisoni cf 0 0 0 0
Smith c 3 0 1 1
Hunter 2b,3b 3 0 0 0
Garver p 3 0 0 0
DeMaestri ss 2 1 1 0
Totals 28 3 5 3
Detroit 000 010 000131
Kansas City 000 101 01x351
  Detroit Tigers IP H R ER BB SO
Maas  L (6-2) 8.0 5 3 3 2 3
Totals
8.0
5
3
3
2
3
  Kansas City Athletics IP H R ER BB SO
Garver  W (3-3) 9.0 3 1 1 3 3
Totals
9.0
3
1
1
3
3

  E–Boone (4), Graff (2).  DP–Detroit 1. Bolling-Kuenn-Boone.  2B–Detroit Boone (8,off Garver), Kansas City Zernial (8,off Maas); Smith (6,off Maas); DeMaestri (5,off Maas)..  HR–Kansas City Zernial (9,6th inning off Maas 0 on 1 out).  IBB–Porter (1,by Garver).  Team LOB–6.  SF–Graff (1,off Maas).  Team–4.  U-HP–Eddie Hurley, 1B–Ed Runge, 2B–Frank Umont, 3B–Joe Paparella.  T–2:03.  A–14,093.
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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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