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Why baseball strike out is shown as K?

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on scoreboard strikeout is shown as K

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  1. Early baseball writer Henry Chadwick used K for strucK out, as S was being used for Sacrifice.


  2. idk, mabye cuz  the word striKeout

  3. K comes from the word stuck. Struck out swinging. Also denoted as SO.

    Backwards K means struck out looking.

  4. Cuz it wouldnt make any sence if it was a P.

  5. a swinging strike out is show as K and a backwards K is striking out looking.
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