Dean Chantiles, Palm Springs: "Baseball is my favorite team sport. I was an 11-year-old growing up in the suburbs of Philadelphia in 1964 and have been a long-suffering Phillies fan ever since.

Reading box scores in newspapers was once the thing to do every morning if you were a diehard baseball fan, but that day has long ago passed and with it so has one man's obsession.

Before advanced statistics. Even before radar guns were ubiquitous throughout MLB stadiums. Pitches would make the ball dance and batters would rope line drives or smash grounders on astroturf and ...

To some, maybe, baseball's box scores represent only a skipped page in the newspaper, a glut of uninterpreted and decontextualized data. But to those of us who spend our days poring over them, box ...

The box score has been a staple of newspapers since the 1800s. Yet like everything else in the ever changing world of media, its future is precarious in print editions, as sports editors wrestle ...

The box score is the holy grail of the sports section for any good baseball fan. No more than 2 or 3 inches, there is more information per square inch than any other part of the paper. Eat your ...

The Man Who Made Baseball's Box Score A Hit Henry Chadwick brought the baseball box score to the people in 1859. Today, millions of fans start their day checking the scores and trying to dissect them.

Henry Chadwick died on April 20, 1908, and his creation of the baseball box score causes Tim Kurkjian to reflect on his love of box scores. (1:44) Tim Kurkjian Apr 20, 2020, 06:16 AM ET.