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  1. Apr 2025
    1. [–]lawyernurse 17 points18 points19 points 3 days ago (1 child)He would also use “WW” for when he missed a play - wasn’t watching. He was a treasure. permalinkembedsavereportreply[–]Practical_Bad8980 7 points8 points9 points 3 days ago (0 children)He got that from Phil Rizzuto

      WW - Wasn't Watching

      anecdotal via https://www.reddit.com/r/BaseballScorecards/comments/1jq7jol/score_like_uecker_wc_who_cares/

    1. “It was like this almost 11x17 spiral bound book,” Provus said. “It probably had 185, 190 pages, and I had to carry that. I had to fill that out every day. I would write the names, the numbers, the defense, the starters. … He taught me his way of scoring and to this day, that’s how I score. “In a blowout, when a runner will take second base on indifference, as Bob Uecker would say and write in his scorecard, ‘Who cares?’ He would put a ‘WC.’ ”

      WC - "Who Cares"

    1. Comprehensive Abbreviation List In Alphabetical Order Abbreviations Definitions * or ! Great Defensive Play 1B Single 2B Double 3B Triple A Assist BB Base on Balls BK Balk BS Blown Save BT Bunt CG Complete Game CS Caught Stealing DP Double Play DH Designated Hitter E Error Et Error on Throw F Foul FC Fielder's Choice FO Force-Out FP Fielding Percentage G Game GA Games Ahead GB Games Behind GIDP Grounded into Double Play GS Games Started HB Hit by Ball HBP Hit By Pitch HR Home Run I Interference IBB Intentional Base on Balls IF Infield Fly IP Innings Pitched IW Intentional Walk K Strikeout Kc Strikeout - Called Ks Strikeout - Swinging L Left or Losses LD Line Drive LOB Left on Base LP Losing Pitcher NP Number of Pitches Thrown Obs Obstruction OF Outfield OS Out Stealing PB Passed Ball PH Pinch Hit PO Putout PR Pinch Runner R Right RBI Runs Batted In RS Runner(s) Stranded S or SH Sacrifice Hit SAC Sacrifice SB Stolen Base SF Sacrifice Fly SHO Shutout SO Strikeouts SV Save T Triple TB Total Bases TP Triple Play U Unassisted Putout W Walk WP Wild Pitch
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    1. me word or expression every time the notes may be bothfull and legible. Thus "b," with date , is "born" and "d" is "died" ; "dif"is "different from" ; "lit" is "literature" ; "Shak" is " Shakspere" ; "gov"is "governor ;" "govt" is "government" ; "cal" is "calculate" ; "cur" is"current"; "org" is "organic" or "organism"; "prep" is "precipitate" ;"dec" is "decant" ; " " is "filter"; "comp" is "compound" ; " H" is"Hydrogen" ; "dyn" is " dynamo ", or "dynamic" ; "dn" is "dyne", etc. ,without end. You need not be particular about grammar or completeness .There is no limitation save clearness and accuracy. One must be able toread the notes later.

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  5. Aug 2022
    1. Forms w e d in footnote citations. The following formsare in standard use in footnote citations: id. (idem, thesame), meaning by the same author as the book last cited;ibid. (ibidem, in the same place), meaning in the same bookas the one last cited; op. cit. (opere citato, in the workcited), meaning in the author’s work cited in an earlier, butnot immediately preceding, footnote in the same chapter; Zoc.cit. (loco citato, in the place cited), meaning the author’sarticle in the periodical or review previously cited in thesame chapter; cf. (confer, compare), meaning compare thestatement in the text with the one cited in the footnote eon-cerned; supra (above) and infra (below) or ante (before)and post (after), used to cite passages earlier or later inthe book or article itself; passim (scattered), sometimesused instead of exact citations when references to the sub-ject are scattered freely through a work; et seq. ( a t sequen-tee, and following), meaning on the several successive pagesfollowing the one cited, but the English abbreviation, ff.(following) is more commonly used instead. In the last twocases, however, it is preferable to give the exact page cita-tions instead of the vague reference.

      a nice little collections of notations used in footnotes in the early 20th century.

      Not all of these are seen or commonly used now.

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