Brooklyn Dodgers vs New York Yankees
October 6, 1956 Box Score

The box score below is an accurate record of events for the baseball contest played on October 6, 1956 at Yankee Stadium. The New York Yankees defeated the Brooklyn Dodgers 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

Brooklyn Dodgers 3, New York Yankees 5

Brooklyn Dodgers ab   r   h rbi
Gilliam lf 4 0 0 0
Reese ss 4 1 2 0
Snider cf 3 0 0 1
Robinson 3b 3 1 1 0
Hodges 1b 3 1 1 0
Furillo rf 4 0 2 0
Campanella c 3 0 1 1
Neal 2b 4 0 0 0
Craig p 2 0 1 0
  Jackson ph 1 0 0 0
  Labine p 0 0 0 0
Totals 31 3 8 2
New York Yankees ab   r   h rbi
Bauer rf 4 1 1 0
Collins 1b 4 1 0 0
Mantle cf 4 0 1 0
Berra c 4 1 2 1
Slaughter lf 3 1 2 3
Martin 2b 4 1 1 1
McDougald ss 2 0 1 0
Carey 3b 3 0 0 0
Ford p 3 0 0 0
Totals 31 5 8 5
Brooklyn 010 001 100381
New York 010 003 01x581
  Brooklyn Dodgers IP H R ER BB SO
Craig  L (0-1) 6.0 7 4 4 1 4
  Labine  2 1.0 1 0 1 2 0
Totals
7.0
8
5
4
2
6
  New York Yankees IP H R ER BB SO
Ford  W (1-1) 9.0 8 3 2 2 7
Totals
9.0
8
3
2
2
7

  E–Neal (1), McDougald (1).  DP–Brooklyn 2 Craig-Reese-Hodges, Neal-Reese-Hodges, New York 1 Martin-McDougald-Collins.  2B–Brooklyn Furillo (2,off Ford), New York Berra (1,off Labine).  3B–Brooklyn Reese (1,off Ford).  HR–New York Martin (2,2nd inning off Craig 0 on 1 out); Slaughter (1,6th inning off Craig 2 on 2 out).  SF–Campanella (2,off Ford); Snider (1,off Ford).  Team LOB–5.  IBB–Slaughter (1,by Labine).  Team–4.  CS–Campanella (1,2nd base by Ford/Berra).  IBB–Labine (1,Slaughter).  U-HP–Dusty Boggess, 1B–Larry Napp, 2B–Babe Pinelli, 3B–Hank Soar.  T–2:17.  A–73,977.
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."