A History of Short Words

From the New York Times Crossword Puzzle

RBIS

Sun, 2 Jun '24
Certain baseball stats
Tue, 20 Feb '24
Hank Aaron holds the M.L.B. record for these, for short (2,297)
Sun, 8 Oct '23
Stat for a cleanup hitter
Sun, 24 Sep '23
Some baseball stats
Wed, 1 Jun '22
David Ortiz had 1,768 of them, for short
Mon, 21 Feb '22
Baseball slugger's stat
Tue, 24 Aug '21
A grand slam nets four of these, for short
Thu, 1 Jul '21
Box score column
Wed, 21 Apr '21
Stat for a D.H.