The Joy of Keeping Score: How Scoring the Game Has Influenced and Enhanced the History of Baseball
Dickson, Paul
ISBN 10: 0156005166 ISBN 13: 9780156005166
Published by Harvest Books, 1997
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Synopsis:
Discusses the history of scorekeeping from the 1840s to the present, showing actual scorecards from some of baseball's most famous games, and looks at basic and advanced scoring techniques
Review:
" A celebration of one of baseball's most divine and unique pleasures, the art of painting a picture of an entire game using only a No. 2 pencil and a blank program lineup sheet." -- "USA"" Today Baseball Weekly"
" If you are scoring at home, mark this book down as an extra-base hit. Dickson has done it again." -- "Sporting News"""
" The definitive book on the subject." -- Jon Miller, ESPN announcer
" No other American sport has anything that genuinely approximates the scorecard." -- Thomas Boswell
"A celebration of one of baseball's most divine and unique pleasures, the art of painting a picture of an entire game using only a No. 2 pencil and a blank program lineup sheet."--"USA"" Today Baseball Weekly"
"If you are scoring at home, mark this book down as an extra-base hit. Dickson has done it again."--"Sporting News"""
"The definitive book on the subject."--Jon Miller, ESPN announcer
"No other American sport has anything that genuinely approximates the scorecard."--Thomas Boswell
A celebration of one of baseball's most divine and unique pleasures, the art of painting a picture of an entire game using only a No. 2 pencil and a blank program lineup sheet. "USA Today Baseball Weekly"
If you are scoring at home, mark this book down as an extra-base hit. Dickson has done it again. "Sporting News"
The definitive book on the subject. "Jon Miller, ESPN announcer"
No other American sport has anything that genuinely approximates the scorecard. "Thomas Boswell""
A celebration of one of baseball's most divine and unique pleasures, the art of painting a picture of an entire game using only a No. 2 pencil and a blank program lineup sheet. USA Today Baseball Weekly
If you are scoring at home, mark this book down as an extra-base hit. Dickson has done it again. Sporting News
The definitive book on the subject. Jon Miller, ESPN announcer
No other American sport has anything that genuinely approximates the scorecard. Thomas Boswell
""A celebration of one of baseball's most divine and unique pleasures, the art of painting a picture of an entire game using only a No. 2 pencil and a blank program lineup sheet." --USA Today Baseball Weekly
"If you are scoring at home, mark this book down as an extra-base hit. Dickson has done it again." --Sporting News
"The definitive book on the subject." --Jon Miller, ESPN announcer
"No other American sport has anything that genuinely approximates the scorecard." --Thomas Boswell
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Bibliographic Details
Title: The Joy of Keeping Score: How Scoring the ...
Publisher: Harvest Books
Publication Date: 1997
Binding: paperback
Condition: Very Good