{"id":4946,"date":"2011-03-10T10:00:05","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T18:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=4946"},"modified":"2011-11-08T22:55:10","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T06:55:10","slug":"why-k-denotes-a-strikeout-in-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/03\/why-k-denotes-a-strikeout-in-baseball\/","title":{"rendered":"Why &#8220;K&#8221; Denotes a Strikeout in Baseball"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/why-k-is-strikeout.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4947\" title=\"why-k-is-strikeout\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/why-k-is-strikeout.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/why-k-is-strikeout.jpg 558w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/why-k-is-strikeout-340x225.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>##EMBED##<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Baseball Facts\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/02\/the-baseball-box-score-was-first-developed-by-henry-chadwick\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here for Sources and to Learn More Interesting Baseball Facts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Text Version<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p>Henry Chadwick, the creator of the baseball box score, chose the \u201cK\u201d to denote a strikeout because it was the last letter in \u201cstruck\u201d as in \u201cstruck out\u201d.\u00a0 Chadwick often liked to use the last letter of words instead of the first, particularly when he felt they were more memorable.\u00a0 In this particular case, Chadwick said \u201cthe letter K in struck is easier to remember in connection with the word, than S.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn More Interesting Baseball Facts Text Version: Henry Chadwick, the creator of the baseball box score, chose the \u201cK\u201d to denote a strikeout because it was the last letter in \u201cstruck\u201d as in \u201cstruck out\u201d.\u00a0 Chadwick often liked to use the last letter of words instead of the first, particularly when he felt [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[1282],"class_list":["post-4946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-baseball-facts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4946"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4949,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4946\/revisions\/4949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}