A box score is the most beautiful thing in sports.
Nine innings across the top, a column of names down the side, and a whole afternoon in a grid you can read in ten seconds. Bat & Box is every one of them, back to 1897.
Every day since 1897
Pick a date and read the day's games the way the morning paper printed them — roughly 220,000 of them.
The whole box score
Both lineups, every pitching line, the umpires who worked it, the ballpark, the attendance, the time of game.
Every name is a door
Tap a player for that season, then for his whole career, year by year. Umpires get pages too.
Ask
A question box that answers hard ones from the box scores themselves — every figure checked against them, and every list a door to the games behind it.
Today, as it happens
Current-season scores update while you watch them.
Thanks
Bat & Box exists because of Retrosheet, whose volunteers have spent forty years rebuilding the box score of nearly every major league game ever played, and give it away.