Old box scores
 

Posted By: <b>Bill Todd</b><p>I'm sure that some of you are familiar with this, but I've never paid much attention to the statistics in old box scores before. Here's a lot on eBay--nothing special, but the game summaries are succint gems. Note the emphasis on defense--the player-by-player listings include fielding info rather than all the batting info you see now.<br /><br /><a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260053721053" target="_new" rel="nofollow">http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260053721053</a><br /><br />I also thought the position designations are interesting. What's the "m" stand for? "middle" fielder? (I guess they didn't want to use a "c" for both center fielder and catcher, but they had no problem with using the same character for left fielder and first baseman.)<br /><br />Bill<br />