Where did they get the K in a strikeout in baseball?

Answer 1

To be honest, I always thought it had something to do with a "knock out"; but I found this on Wikipedia:

In scoring, a swinging strikeout is recorded as a K, or a K-S. Some scorers record strikeouts where the batter didn't swing at the last pitch with a backwards-facing K, also recorded as K-C. The use of "K" for a strikeout was invented by Henry Chadwick, a newspaper journalist. The letter "S" was used to coin "sacrifice" so Mr. Chadwick decided to use "K", with "K" being the last letter in "struck".

Answer 2

The K is s scoring shorthand, like the numbers assigned to the position players. It started when someone thought it would be better to put lines down for the strikes, and since there were three strikes, then three lines, using the only letter in the word strike to have three kines in it. The backward K for caught looking at the third strike is a derivation began by radio announcers who had to keep their own stats, although most announcers do score their own games.

Answer 3

They don't use SO as a pitching stat because it is a batting stat so they decided to use the most unique letter in the words "strike out" and that would be the "K".

Answer 4

the k is inbetween stri and out strikkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkeout

Answer 5

striKKKe out