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Title: The Joy of Keeping Score: How Scoring the Game Has Influenced and Enhanced the History of Baseball by Paul Dickson ISBN: 0-15-600516-6 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: July, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.85 (13 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Fun, a nice read, buy it! But, it's lacking in areas.
Comment: Don't expect this book to teach you how to score games. The book lacks a full-size sample scorecard to use, which I would have liked. It doesn't go into enough detail about scoring; being a beginner I was flummoxed attempting to score double-switches, bunts and teams batting around in an inning. It will get you going, but if you're like me and don't know how to score a game yet, you'll be looking for more. That aside, the anecdotes and illustrations make this a fun book to read. The subtitle "How Scoring the Game Influenced and Enhanced the History of Baseball" is an accurate description of the gist of the book. It's less of a how-to and more of a why-to.
Rating: 4
Summary: The evolution of baseball scoring
Comment: ... I bought this book when I became my son's youth leagueasst. coach/scorekeeper. The advice that scorekeeping can become individualized to suit the needs of the scorekeeper and team led me to incorporate several techniques and created what I think was more interesting and revealing portrait a game on the page. This book reveals the many ways of keeping score and the true reason for the existence, to recreate the game on paper. The author offers baseball history and many interesting and funny anecdotes (LL Bean devised a scorekeeping method). Well illustrated, a must for all baseball fans.
Rating: 4
Summary: Chock full, but a little scattered
Comment: This is probably the very best book out there about scoring, and aptly titled, because after I read this book I have become fascinated with scoring (maybe a little too much??). The author clearly loves the game and gives you lots of reasons to love it yourself.
The book's thoroughness is both its strength and weakness. There is only a small section that gives you a clear mandate on how to score. But the rest of the book is just plain chock full of suggestions and variations, from simple to being able to recreate the game pitch-by-pitch, but you have to read the whole book to get all of them. This also makes it hard to find something you remember from past readings. There is an index to help out, though.
Overall, a great book that truly embraces the joy of scoring, and has dozens of styles that you can choose to use when you score. He leaves it up to you to pick your own style.
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Title: Official Major League Baseball Rules Book, 2003 Edition by Sporting News, Major League Baseball ISBN: 089204702X Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Distributed Products Pub. Date: 20 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Play Ball! Baseball Scorebook by Eric Enders ISBN: 0970873018 Publisher: Triple E Productions Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Hidden Language of Baseball: How Signs and Sign Stealing Have Influenced the Course of Our National Pastime by Paul Dickson ISBN: 0802713920 Publisher: Walker & Co Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Tim McCarver's Baseball for Brain Surgeons and Other Fans : Understanding and Interpreting the Game So You Can Watch It Like a Pro by Tim McCarver, Danny Peary ISBN: 0375753400 Publisher: Villard Pub. Date: 16 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Baseball Scorekeeping: A Practical Guide to the Rules by Andres Wirkmaa ISBN: 0786414480 Publisher: McFarland & Company Pub. Date: 06 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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