The Joy of Keeping Score: How Scoring the Game Has Influenced and Enhanced the History of Baseball by Paul Dickson

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

Paul Dickson

128 pages first pub 1996 (view editions)

nonfiction history sports informative slow-paced
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This book is ideal for readers who delight in baseball's intricacies and appreciate how its traditions have shaped the sport's narrative.

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In this unique book, Paul Dickson celebrates one of the most unusual traditions in all of sports--the baseball scorecard. Within the history of the scorecard are some of baseball's greatest moments. From the first scorecard introduced in 1845, to ...

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