Why in baseball is a strike recorded with a "K"?

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A strikeout is recorded with a "K" or sometimes a backwards K if they strikeout without swinging...not just a strike.

Here's my cut and paste.

*The use of "K" for a strikeout was invented by Henry Chadwick, a newspaper journalist who is widely credited as the originator of the box score and the baseball scorecard.
*Mr. Chadwick decided to use "K", with "K" being the last letter in "struck."

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I think the first answer is correct, but would just add that the use of the letter S would make it confusing when there is also the sacrifice bunt, which does get the letter S on a scorecard.

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striKeout

its the middle letter
and S is already being used in a lot of stats
like saves(S), sacrifices (SAC), sacrifice bunts(SAC BUNT), steals (SB)

it is also the last letter in struck and i have heard from many people that that is how it started as well.

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