New York Yankees vs Brooklyn Dodgers
October 3, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on October 3, 1956 at Ebbets Field. The Brooklyn Dodgers defeated the New York Yankees 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

New York Yankees 3, Brooklyn Dodgers 6

New York Yankees ab   r   h rbi
Bauer rf 5 0 2 0
Slaughter lf 5 1 3 0
Mantle cf 3 1 1 2
Berra c 3 0 0 0
Skowron 1b 4 0 0 0
McDougald ss 4 0 0 0
Martin 2b,3b 3 1 1 1
Carey 3b 3 0 1 0
  Collins ph 1 0 0 0
  Turley p 0 0 0 0
Ford p 1 0 0 0
  Wilson ph 1 0 0 0
  Kucks p 0 0 0 0
  Cerv ph 1 0 1 0
  Morgan p 0 0 0 0
  Byrne ph 1 0 0 0
  Coleman 2b 0 0 0 0
Totals 35 3 9 3
Brooklyn Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Gilliam 2b 3 0 0 0
Reese ss 4 1 2 0
Snider cf 3 1 1 0
Robinson 3b 4 1 1 1
Hodges 1b 4 2 2 3
Furillo rf 4 0 1 1
Campanella c 4 1 1 0
Amoros lf 3 0 1 1
Maglie p 3 0 0 0
Totals 32 6 9 6
New York 200 100 000391
Brooklyn 023 100 00x690
  New York Yankees IP H R ER BB SO
Ford  L (0-1) 3.0 6 5 5 0 1
  Kucks  2 2.0 1 1 0 1 0
  Morgan  2 1.0 0 0 2 0 0
  Turley  1 0.0 0 0 0 2 0
Totals
6.0
9
6
6
2
4
  Brooklyn Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Maglie  W (1-0) 9.0 9 3 3 4 10
Totals
9.0
9
3
3
4
10

  E–Skowron (1).  DP–New York 1 Skowron-McDougald-Martin, Brooklyn 1 Gilliam-Reese-Hodges.  2B–Brooklyn Furillo (1,off Ford); Campanella (1,off Kucks).  HR–New York Mantle (1,1st inning off Maglie 1 on 1 out); Martin (1,4th inning off Maglie 0 on 1 out), Brooklyn Robinson (1,2nd inning off Ford 0 on 0 out); Hodges (1,3rd inning off Ford 2 on 2 out).  Team LOB–9.  IBB–Snider (1,by Morgan).  Team–4.  SB–Gilliam (1,2nd base off Kucks/Berra).  IBB–Morgan (1,Snider).  U-HP–Babe Pinelli, 1B–Hank Soar, 2B–Dusty Boggess, 3B–Larry Napp.  T–2:32.  A–34,479.
Baseball Almanac Box Score


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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."