The batter is expected to promptly take his place in the batter's box when his turn to bat comes up and is not permitted to exit the box once the pitcher begins his windup or comes to the set position ...

Readers respond to our recent column on the elimination of box scores and standings from daily newspapers: Here is a sampling of some of their responses. Bruce Sherman, Indian Wells: "Two weeks ago I ...

Forget “Dick and Jane.” I learned to read by studying the baseball box scores in the newspaper. Many of you probably did the same if sports dominated your early years. Once you deciphered the code, ...

We interrupt the stretch run of this fascinating baseball season with something completely irrelevant, epically ridiculous and wildly unimportant. A most absurd streak quietly ended in 2010: For the ...

In our introduction to the Baseball Prospectus Basics series we wrote, “We always want to improve our understanding of the game–each player, each play, each pitch, each throw, each hit–what does it ...

A baseball box score is loaded with information about the game and players’ performances, but first you need to know what the abbreviations mean. Plain Dealer reporter Dennis Manoloff decodes a box ...