struck nomo symbol k used early baseball box scores indicating batter struck abbreviation probably originated around 1850 henry chadwick introduced newspaper box score one player performance could fairly measured another chadwick british born newspaperman described ken burns baseball baseball chief arbiter publicist goad country first baseball editor working new york clipper brooklyn eagle nearly fifty years also wrote chadwick baseball manual standardized rules etc early game information comes baseball informant chris hakala narrative transcript geoffrey ward ken burns _ baseball _ published knopf 1994 john limber department psychology university new hampshire durham nh 03824 usa email john limber unh edu fax 603 8624986