Where did the letter "K" come from in representing it as a Strikeout?
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Makes you wonder, doesn't it? But there's actually a simple explanation.\n\nFrom Neil Cohen's article "How to Score a Game," from John Thorn and Pete Palmer's Total Baseball, we discover that Henry Chadwick, one of the first newspaper journalists to take a literary interest in baseball, built upon a scoring technique devised by fellow New York journalist M. J. Kelly. "Chadwick created a minutely detailed scorecard so he would have a point of reference and recollection when he wrote his articles about the game," Cohen writes. He adds that Chadwick invented the modern boxscore.\n\nChadwick also invented the system we use to indicate fielders (pitcher=1, shortstop=6, right field=9, etc.), and the abbreviations we use for events (HR, HBP, BB, so on). Chadwick needed S for sacrifice, so he chose K for strikeout - K being the last letter of "struck," which was then in more common use than the term "strikeout." \n\nSome people carry it further, using a K for a swinging strikeout, and a backward K for being caught looking. Some folks go with the more intuitive "SO," but this creates confusion with the abbreviation for "shutout," so "K" has remained the abbreviation of choice.
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If you mean the origin of the "word" it means \n0(zero) Killed. It was used during the war and it was also symbolized with a thumb up.\nI've also heard that it comes from old English and O.K. were the initials for All Correct wich were suposed to be spelled Oll "Korrect" (O.K.). But the first choice is probably the korrect one.
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This is short for 'out for a duck's egg', the duck's egg being the large nought (0) recorded on the scoreboard.\nThe expression is recorded from the 1860s.
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WRONG!  It's basically the same as the regular "Take me out to the ballgame" except it says root, root root for the CUBBIES instead of the home team:\n\nTake me out to the ballgame\nTake me out to the crowd\nBuy me some peanuts and cracker jacks\nI don't care If i ever get back\nFor it's root, root root for the CUBBIES\nIf they dont win it's a shame\nFor it's 1,2,3 strikes your out at the old, ball, game!\n\nLETS GET SOME RUNS!!
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I can't find it from baseball histroy.  Maybe you spelled it wrong?
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Your question made me curious enough to do a little searching.  Turns out nobody is sure of where the term "Yankee" actually originated.  During the American Revolution, the Brits called us Yankees as a cut-down, and being the Americans they were, after they kicked the Brits butts, they adopted the term for themselves.  Perverse bunch, aren't we?  Best guess has to do with the Dutch being called Yankees well before our little party in 1776.
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Here are a couple theories that sound vaguely plausible, but probably aren't true, to tide you over while I do some research.  I'll be back if I find anything else that seems more likely.\n\nGreat question!\n\nEDIT:  All right, here's one that sounds pretty good to me:  "Another, perhaps somewhat more likely, theory comes not from the use of relievers, but rather from late-arriving fans. In the 1870s, and perhaps earlier, after the game had started tickets would be sold at a discount.\nThese late arriving fans with cheap tickets would be herded into a roped-off, standing-room-only area in foul territory. Because the fans were herded in like cattle, the area was known as the bullpen. In 1877 the Cincinnati Enquirer used the term to describe this practice. The name for this area of foul territory stuck, and later when relief pitchers became part of the game, they used this area of foul territory to warm up. After that, the term bullpen stuck to relievers."\n\nFollow the second link to get the full discussion that this answer came from.
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in some old time score books, a line was drawn for each strike on a batter and within the box for each batter when three strikes were recorded, those lines loosely resembled what looks like a K.  scorebooiks have been changed and modified several times over the years and there are multiple versions in use today, but that is how the term K first came into being.
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F**k is an English word which, when used literally as a verb, means "to engage in sexual intercourse". It is generally considered to be an offensive profanity. Its origins may be Germanic, akin to the synonymous German "ficken", which had the original meaning, "to strike".\n\nIt is unclear whether the word has always been considered vulgar, and if not, when it first started to be considered vulgar. Some evidence indicates that in some English-speaking locales it was considered acceptable as late as the 17th century meaning "to strike" or "to penetrate". Other evidence indicates that it may have become vulgar as early as the 16th century in England, although neither set of evidence is inherently contradictory to the other, since many words have multiple connotations. The etymology (origin) of the word is uncertain.\n\nThere are several urban-legend false etymologies postulating an acronymic origin for the word. One legend holds that the word f**k came from Irish law. If a couple were caught committing adultery they would be punished "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge In the Nude", with "F U C K I N'" written on the stocks above them to denote the crime.
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The original name of ISU's teams was the Cardinals. After a game which ISU won resoundingly, the next day's newspaper printed a headline on the other team being hit by an "Iowa Cyclone", or something to that effect. Have provided a reference link:
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One side of the baseball has the commissioner of baseball's imprinted signature.  A. Bartlett Giomatti was the comissioner of the National League from 1986- April 1989.  I was probably in that time period
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Generally it doesn't stand for anything. It's just that. "Okay."\n\n'kk' is just Net Speak. Half the time it doesn't mean anything. Just like saying "WOMG!" the 'W' doesn't stand for anything. It just makes saying 'OMG' more funny, especially if you are picking on internet newbies.
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It might be kind of interesting if you kept track of HRs and Ks for both pitchers and hitters. As it is, it doesn't sound like much I would be interested in.
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It is a home run that ends the game.  The term "walk-off" comes from the days of Lou Gehrig.  After he hit a three-run home run to win a game for the Yankees his teammates walked-off the field, into the dug-out, and into the locker room.  They did this before rounding the bases and touching home plate.  All the runs were scored and the umpire called the game before Gehrig himself could even make his way to home.
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It is a form of illegal strike.\n\nPhrasal Verbs: \nwalk out\n1. To go on strike.\n2. To leave suddenly, often as a signal of disapproval
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It's believed to have been abreviated from Oll Korrect, used in Boston newspapers during the 1800's, as a deliberate misspelling of All Correct.\n\nApparently they liked using abbreviations apparently.
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we don't use k,l,m,n anymore. The letters are s,p,d and f. They refer to the different shapes of the shells(orbitals)