Synopses & Reviews
Few sports lovers are as obsessed with rules and statistics as baseball fans. In So You Think You Know Baseball, lifelong baseball enthusiast Peter E. Meltzer catalogues every noteworthy baseball rule and illustrates it with actual plays, from the historical to the contemporary. Each rule is demonstrated by an interesting play in which Meltzer considers the potentially tricky aspect of the rule in a fun quiz-style format. With a foreword by rules expert Rich Marazzi, the book can be read from start to finish to see if the reader knows the answers or consulted while watching a game to understand the mechanics of a play or how it gets scored. Meltzer’s unique and thoroughly entertaining guide in hand, readers will never again have to scratch their heads over an umpire’s or scorekeeper’s call.
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"Definitely recommended. Meticulously researched, but always fun…to be pored over and used to quiz other fans." Mark Flowers
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" for baseball." Dan Shaughnessy, author of the New York Times bestseller Francona
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"Give this book to a fan and you might make yourself a friend for life." Mark Flowers
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"Meltzer has pulled off a baseball feat as rare as a triple play. He's managed to demystify--and in the process humanize--the game's complex and often arcane rulebook." School Library Journal
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"I loved this book. The amount of research that went into it made my head spin. It's the real-life examples that make the difference." Frank Fitzpatrick Philadelphia Inquirer
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"This unique breakdown of [baseball's] complex rules makes the labyrinthine regulations easy for even casual observers to understand.... So you think you know baseball? Check out this book and you'll know a lot more!" Grant Brisbee, editor, Baseball Nation
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"Absorbing." Neil Pond American Profile
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" for baseball." Dan Shaughnessy, author of the New York Times bestseller Francona
Synopsis
You can read the book from start to finish or consult it while watching a game to understand the mechanics of a play or how it should be scored. Meltzer analyzes the entire Official Baseball Rules using hundreds of Major League plays involving both plays on the field situations and plays which have involved the official scorer. This is the first book ever written which analyzes the entire rulebook in this fashion and which is based on actual plays.
With Meltzer s unique and thoroughly entertaining guide in hand, which includes a foreword by baseball rules expert Rich Marazzi, you ll never have to scratch your head over an umpire or scorekeeper s call again.
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Essential for armchair umpires and scorekeepers, this guide challenges aficionados on every significant part of the Official Baseball Rules.
About the Author
Peter E. Meltzer, the author of the best-selling The Thinker’s Thesaurus and So You Think You Know the Presidents?, is an attorney and a former professor at Rutgers University School of Law. He is a long-suffering Phillies fan.