any ideas?
why not 'S' or 'O' or 'X' ?
2006-10-12 05:40:29 · 6 answers · asked by icescriem 2 in Sports ➔ Baseball
An early baseball writer named Henry Chadwick came up with that and many other scoring abbreviations. "S" was taken for sacrifice already, as explained above, so he needed something else for strikeout. "K" is the last letter in 'struck' and that was the preferred statement of the time, hence no "T" for strikeout. They used to say 'struck out'.
2006-10-12 05:51:45 · answer #1 · answered by R.T.D. 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It comes from the traditional way of filling out a baseball scorecard. (Y'know, those paper things they sell at baseball stadiums that no one ever fills out anymore.) The "K" symbol has always been used to denote a strikeout.
2006-10-12 12:43:01 · answer #2 · answered by David M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
when they were writing out score cards they already used S to stand for sacrifice so they took the word struck and just took the K from the end and used that to signify a strike out
2006-10-12 13:41:03 · answer #3 · answered by Jay 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because S was already taken for "sacrifice", SO for "shutout", and O for "out". K works because, being a hard consonant in the middle of the word, it's a letter you associate with the word "strikeout".
2006-10-12 13:11:39 · answer #4 · answered by JerH1 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A "K" is how a strikeout is noted in a score book.
K= Swinging strikeout
Backwards K = Strikeout looking
2006-10-12 12:44:12 · answer #5 · answered by Nuke Lefties 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because "S" is the symbol for sacrifice.
2006-10-12 12:45:23 · answer #6 · answered by mollylsanders 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋