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Henry Chadwick (writer)
Henry Chadwick
(1824 – April 20, 1908) was an
English
-born
American
sportswriter
,
baseball statistician
and
historian
, often called the "father of
baseball
" for his early reporting on and contributions to the development of the game. He edited the first baseball guide that was sold to the public. He is credited with creating
box scores
, as well as creating the abbreviation "K" that designates a
strikeout
. He is said to have created the statistics of
batting average
and
earned run average
(ERA). He was posthumously inducted into the
National Baseball Hall of Fame
.
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