Bat & Box

A box score is the most beautiful thing in sports. Nine innings across the top, a column of names down the side, and a whole afternoon compressed into a grid you can read in ten seconds. Bat & Box is every one of them, back to 1897. Pick a date — the day you were born, the game your dad still talks about, last night's ninth inning, and read that day the way the morning paper set it: both lineups, every at-bat, every pitching line, the umpires who worked it, the ballpark, the attendance, the time of game. Every name is a door. Tap a player for that season, tap again for the whole career, year by year. Tap a club for its year, the standings, the roster, every result in order, and October if they got there. No feed. No ads. No account. No notifications. Pick a team and the app wears its colors, and your club's game sits at the top of the day. The type is set for columns of small numbers,…