Here’s one of those Cuban League box scores I was enthusing about. This is from Diario de la Marina, January 21, 1907.
VB = “Veces at bat,” times at bat;
C = “Carreras,” runs scored;
BJ = “Buenas jugadas” (literally “good plays”), putouts;
Dead balls = Hit batsmen.
(Btw, the Hall of Fame has an extensive English-to-Spanish and Spanish-to-English baseball dictionary online.)
I forgot another marvelous feature of these box scores: they break down extra base hits allowed by pitchers (González allowed 8 hits altogether—7 singles and one double—while Olave gave up 7 singles and a triple). They also give you batters’ strikeouts, including who whiffed on three pitches.
Also, note the typo: Carlos Morán had 0 sacrifice hits, not 5.
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