"And even the casual fan won't notice that he's speaking a kind of code when he says, Jeff Francoeur went four-for-four. For this we owe at least a tip of the cap to an Englishman eager to champion his new homeland's answer to cricket as printed a 150 years ago this summer."
Mike Pesca of NPR's Morning Edition reports on the sesquicentennial of the baseball box score and its innovator, Henry Chadwick.
Thursday, July 30, 2009
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