why do they call strikeouts 'K' in baseball..

[alien amp pharm]

Do you get a lot of backward K's in the Mens room aap ?

 

[Lestat]

good question

LOL @ Y-lifter!!

 

[FISHTALES]

things

 

[NJjuice22]

lame attempt at getting K phaded. BANDED

 

[Phaded]

what are you talking about mr njjuice

 

[NJjuice22]

what are you talking about mr njjuice

my freakin special k thread just got shutdown within 30 seconds...bullcrap!

 

[Phaded]

dont know what you are talking about.. thanks for all the help brozones

 

[Becoming]

my freakin special k thread just got shutdown within 30 seconds...bullcrap!

that is because no one really likes you.

 

[NJjuice22]

that is because no one really likes you.

thats ok fatso.

 

[awol1]

As The Straight Dope explains, we owe the "K" to an early sportswriter named Henry Chadwick. In fact, Chadwick and another writer named M.J. Kelly are largely responsible for the scoring system baseball uses today.
But whence the K? Chadwick already had "S" slated for "sacrifice." So a strikeout became a "K", after the last letter of the word "struck." The

correct me friend.

originally strikeouts were called "struck out"

and above already explains why the S was not used.

btw--Go Blue. I flew out to see Michigan play Northwestern last year. It was my first time in the big house. I hope to go again soon. If I can get cheaper tickets.