The Joy of Keeping Score: How Scoring the Game Has Influenced and Enhanced the History of Baseball - Softcover

Dickson, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0156005166 ISBN 13: 9780156005166

Publisher: Harvest Books, 1997

Synopsis

The history of scorekeeping, practical scoring techniques, notable scorekeeping blunders and idiosyncrasies, facsimiles of famous scorecards, and more-it’s all here in this “celebration of one of baseball’s most divine and unique pleasures” (USA Today Baseball Weekly).

About this title

Review:

There are two reasons to head out to the ballpark. One is to passively watch the game, the other is to actively see it, and you can't do the latter without a scorecard. In this slim gem of a volume, Paul Dickson clearly explains and translates the quirky documentation system, which looks like cuneiform to the uninitiated, for recording what happens on the ball field, and why true fans are so adamant about doing it. Filled with history, anecdotes, and rules, it also reproduces--to the joy of scorers everywhere--the official scorer's records for some of baseball's most significant moments, including Don Larson's perfecto and Babe Ruth's called shot.

About the Author:

Paul Dickson (born in Yonkers, NY) is a freelance writer of more than 45 non-fiction books, mostly on (American) English language and popular culture. He has written many articles on a wide variety of subjects. He is a founding member and former president of Washington Independent Writers and a member of the National Press Club.Dickson coined the term "word word".

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvest Books
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0156005166
• ISBN 13: 9780156005166
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 117