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Originally Posted by zrog2000
I know how to score a baseball game. That stuff wasn't in the box score though. Is it recorded anywhere? It's not on fangraphs or baseball reference.
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It's not going to be either. In that era they didn't have high speed computers and SQL to sort out data and share it with the world. Scoresheets were kept by the official scorer who turned it into the league so put outs and assists could be credited to the correct player, and other official stats recorded and kept, and teams also had a scorer in the dugout, usually a starting pitcher on his off day. If the Yankees wanted to know the exact numbers for DiMaggio, they'd have pulled the paper sheets out of the file cabinat and had someone count. But the folks in the dugout didn't need the exact numbers. They saw balls that used to clear the fence be caught, and opposing scouts did too.