Baseball
- AB – at-bats
- AVG – batting average
- BB – base on balls
- BS – blown save
- CS – caught stealing
- DP – double play
- E – error
- ER – earned run
- ERA – earned run average
- H – hits, hits allowed
- HBP – batter hit by a pitch
- HR – home run(s), home runs allowed
- IP – inning(s) pitched
- K – strikeouts
- LOB – left on base
- MLB – Major League Baseball
- OBP – on-base percentage
- OPS – on-base plus slugging
- R – runs scored, runs allowed
- RBI – run(s) batted in
- RHP right handed pitcher]]
- S, SH – sacrifice hit
- SHO, ShO – shutout
- SLG – slugging percentage
- SO – strikeouts
- SB – stolen base
- SF – sacrifice fly
- WHIP – walks plus hits per inning pitched
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Famous quotes containing the word baseball:
“How, in one short century, has this ersatz sport so strangled the consciousness of the country in the grip of its flabby tentacles that the mention of women’s baseball gets no reaction other than blank amazement?”
—Darlene Mehrer, As quoted in Women in Baseball. Ch. 6, by Gai Ingham Berlage (1994)
“When Dad can’t get the diaper on straight, we laugh at him as though he were trying to walk around in high-heel shoes. Do we ever assist him by pointing out that all you have to do is lay out the diaper like a baseball diamond, put the kid’s butt on the pitcher’s mound, bring home plate up, then fasten the tapes at first and third base?”
—Michael K. Meyerhoff (20th century)
“Compared to football, baseball is almost an Oriental game, minimizing individual stardom, requiring a wide range of aggressive and defensive skills, and filled with long periods of inaction and irresolution. It has no time limitations. Football, on the other hand, has immediate goals, resolution on every single play, and a lot of violence—itself a highlight. It has clearly distinguishable hierarchies: heroes and drones.”
—Jerry Mander, U.S. advertising executive, author. Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television, ch. 15, Morrow (1978)