Cincinnati Reds v. Brooklyn Dodgers, June 15, 1938, Box Score
Box score
By: The New York Times
Date: June 16, 1938
Source: Cincinnati Reds v. Brooklyn Dodgers, June 15, 1938, Box score, The New York Times, June 16, 1938.
About the Author: Sportswriter Roscoe McGowen wrote the article from which this box score was taken. Beginning in 1929, he worked for thirty years as a correspondent for The New York Times. He also served as a longtime contributor to The Sporting News.
Introduction
Box scores tell stories, allowing fans to know the performances of individual batters and pitchers, and to recognize a team's ability to turn a series of consecutive hits into a string of runs or its failure to knock home a runner.
The box score of the baseball game between the Cincinnati Reds and Brooklyn Dodgers on June 15, 1938, tells the reader that Johnny Vander Meer, pitcher for the Reds, threw a...
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