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Cleveland Indians vs Kansas City Athletics
September 23, 1961 Box Score
The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on September 23, 1961 at Municipal Stadium. The Cleveland Indians defeated the Kansas City Athletics and the box score is "ready to surrender its truth to the knowing eye."
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"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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| Game played on Saturday, September 23, 1961 at Municipal Stadium |
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| Cleveland |
0 | 0 | 4 | | 0 | 0 | 0 | | 0 | 1 | 4 | – | 9 | 14 | 2 |
| Kansas City |
0 | 0 | 3 | | 0 | 0 | 0 | | 2 | 0 | 0 | – | 5 | 9 | 1 |
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| Cleveland Indians |
IP |
H |
R |
ER |
BB |
SO |
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Grant |
6.1 |
6 |
5 |
2 |
5 |
2 |
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Stigman |
0.2 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
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Dailey W (1-0) |
2.0 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
| Totals |
9.0 |
9 |
5 |
2 |
5 |
4 |
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| Kansas City Athletics |
IP |
H |
R |
ER |
BB |
SO |
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Kirk |
3.0 |
6 |
4 |
4 |
1 |
3 |
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Rakow |
4.0 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
3 |
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Kunkel |
1.0 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
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Wickersham L (2-1) |
0.1 |
3 |
4 |
4 |
1 |
1 |
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Wyatt |
0.2 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
| Totals |
9.0 |
14 |
9 |
9 |
3 |
8 |
E–Held (26), Jones (2), Causey (16). DP–Cleveland 1, Kansas City 1. 2B–Cleveland Power (33,off Wickersham); Aspromonte (16,off Wyatt). HR–Cleveland Essegian (12,3rd inning off Kirk 1 on, 1 out); Romano (21,3rd inning off Kirk 1 on, 2 out). SF–Held (5,off Wyatt); D Johnson (4,off Grant). HBP–Cline (1,by Wickersham). Team LOB–9. SH–Howser (7,off Grant). Team–8. SB–Piersall (8,2nd base off Kirk/Sullivan). WP–Grant (8). HBP–Wickersham (1,Cline). U-HP–Frank Umont, 1B–Bob Stewart, 2B–Joe Linsalata, 3B–Charlie Berry. T–2:37. A–1,612. |
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| Game played on Saturday, September 23, 1961 at Municipal Stadium |
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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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