re box score abbrev woes scott asd com scott barman writes in article apr scott skidmore edu jrogoff scott skidmore edu jay rogoff writes can anybody figure out why some box score abbreviations make absolutely no sense at least in the local gannett rag that finds its way to my door i must have stared at cleman in the mets box for a good seconds this morning wondering who the hell it was wouldn t it make more sense to use colemn i ve seen it as colmn also blame the associated press after the official scorer balances the official score card they copy it and give it to several diffent people one of those is a person from ap whose job it is to type it up using a template on a laptop and transmit it to the ap offices in new york rockefeller center via the telephone the box scores are not checked and just rebroadcasted over ap s news delivery services if there are corrections those are issued later it is the person sitting in front of a laptop at shea or whereever whose fault that is note the ap puts out boxscores in three different formats with the one you see in most newspapers being the first one not totally true for the past year or two the ap has been getting box scores from stats inc the ap representative in the press box is actually a stats reporter dollars a game but free parking and anybody can do it the box is downloaded to stats in chicago some quick error checking is done and then stats sends it to the ap i m not sure where the appreveiations come in hear i don t think it is at stats s it may just be a space correction by the ap sports editor that day while i m mentioning stats reporters they are always looking for new people especially if you live in cleveland or pittsburgh you re road to getting into the press box may be real short for more info call stats and ask about the reporter network it s a fun way to get paid for watching baseball games end of public service announcement last week they were in denver maybe the ap person in denver did this remember they just started with mlb out there check tomorrow s paper and see if the person who is doing it from shea does the same thing noel rappin noel chaos cs brandeis edu
