With the aim of providing anyone interested in baseball scorekeeping everything he or she needs to perform the task, this book contains a thorough and comprehensive manual on keeping a scorecard, together with a detailed analysis of each of the numerous, and often complex, official rules governing scorekeeping in baseball (many of which were revised or modified in 2007), as well as scorekeeping issues outside of MLB's rulebook. Myriad examples are given (many drawn from significant and well-known major league games throughout the history of baseball as well as a number of examples drawn from popular culture) of how baseball's scorekeeping rules are applied and dealt with in both routine situations as well as the most difficult and convoluted scenarios. Revised and updated to reflect recent changes to the MLB rulebook, this book is very readable and perfectly accessible to a broad audience.

Those who love sports and working with statistics can combine those two passions to forge a career. This book outlines a pathway for readers seeking to become sports statisticians. It cites what steps should be taken at the middle school and high school levels. It explains which courses one should take in college to move closer to the goal. It points out the myriad of jobs being created in a growing field. The road to a career as a sports statistician is wide open. This book will help readers continue on that road until they reach their destination.

In the Complete Baseball Record Book, you will find all the regular season, postseason, All-Star Game, and World Series updates from all the action in 2003.This includes individual player and team records, career milestones lists that show where active players are on record lists, team-by-team listings that show team records in their history, and more. Plus, you get a statistical snapshot of the 2003 season and the records that were approaching, were surpassed, or are on the horizon to be broken in 2004!

In 1887, Tip O'Neill, left fielder for the St. Louis Browns, won the American Association batting championship with a .492 average--the highest ever for a single season in the Major Leagues. Yet his record was set during a season when a base on balls counted as a hit and a time at bat. Over the next 130 years, the debate about O'Neill's "correct" average diverted attention from the other batting feats of his record-breaking season, including numerous multi-hit games, streaks and long hits, as well as two cycles and the triple crown. The Browns entered 1887 as the champions of St. Louis, the American Association and the world. Following the lead set by their manager, Charles Comiskey, the Browns did "anything to win," combining skill with an aggressive style of play that included noisy coaching, incessant kicking, trickery and rough play. O'Neill did "everything to win" at the plate, leaving the no-holds-barred tactics to his rowdier teammates.