The use of the last letter of Struck instead of the first to denote a strikeout dates back to when Henry Chadwick developed the box score in the late 1850's. Chadwick often used the last letter instead of the first, especially if he considered that letter to be the more prominent one in the word. Chadwick said "the letter K in struck is easier to remember in connection with the word, than S." He also used L for Foul and D for Catch on Bound. Only the K survived into the 20th Century. Source: Paul Dickson's The New Dickson Baseball Dictionary and Alan Schwarz's The Numbers Game. The common view that the K was used because the S was taken (by Sacrifice, Stolen Base, or Single) appears to be erroneous.
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∙ 16y agoThe use of the last letter of Struck instead of the first to denote a strikeout dates back to when Henry Chadwick developed the box score in the late 1850's. Chadwick often used the last letter instead of the first, especially if he considered that letter to be the more prominent one in the word. Chadwick said "the letter K in struck is easier to remember in connection with the word, than S." He also used L for Foul and D for Catch on Bound. Only the K survived into the 20th Century.
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∙ 12y agoIt's because newspaperman Henry Chadwick, while refining the technique used for filling out a scorecard, needed an abbreviation for strikeout (S was already being used for a sacrifice) He elected to use "K" because it was the last letter in "struck".
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∙ 13y agoYou can blame a man named Henry Chadwick. He was in the process of perfecting the baseball score card. S was already used for Sacrifice, so he used the K (the last letter in "struck").
This ended out working perfectly anyway, because when a batter is struck out looking (without swinging) there is nothing on a score card that can be confused with a backwards K.
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∙ 10y agoJust about every abbreviation used in baseball box scores, to this day, was developed by Henry Chadwick in the late 1800s. This includes his use of the letter 'K' for strike out. He never said WHY he made that choice, but that letter does appear in striKe out.
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∙ 15y agoSince S is for sacrifice, r for run, e error, K is the most powerful letter in the word.
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∙ 15y agoIt is a reference to how it is kept in the scorebook. A K is a strikeout. A backwards K is a strikeout looking.
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∙ 12y agoThe letter k sure not be used in baseball regardless if they are turn forward, backward, upside down it is soo racist......three strikeouts...kkk....shame on baseball.
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∙ 15y agoK yellow apple with a sweet kick sourers
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I don’t know
k is for kilo, which means 1000 in the metric system
'k' is not a Roman numeral. It is used to designate kilometer(s), or 1000.
The "K" is placed backwards in cases where the batter strikes out looking.
A 'K' is a strikeout where the batter swung at strike three. A 'k' is a strikeout where the batter did not swing at strike three.
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its marks every 3rd strike out
Looking is backwards. A looking strikeout is subjective to the home plate umpire that night. A swinging strikeout is objective. No doubt that he missed on that third strike; that's a K. K=swinging forward. Backwards K=looking backwards at the umpire and being K'ed
Because all strike outs are prefixed with a "K"
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because the word ''strikeout"does not fit on a scorecard.symbols are used for all baseball notation when scoring a game.
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K - Abbreviation for Strike Originally it was struck out, k is the last letter in struck.