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So You Think You Know Baseball?
Meltzer, Peter E.; Marazzi, Rich
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Description for So You Think You Know Baseball?
Paperback. Essential for armchair umpires and scorekeepers, this guide challenges aficionados on every significant part of the Official Baseball Rules. Num Pages: 386 pages, 21 illustrations. BIC Classification: WSJT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 400.
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 from the Major League rulebook and illustrates its application with actual plays, from the historical to the contemporary.
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 from the Major League rulebook and illustrates its application with actual plays, from the historical to the contemporary.
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 ... Read more
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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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Number of Pages
386
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393344387
SKU
V9780393344387
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99-15
About Meltzer, Peter E.; Marazzi, Rich
Peter E. Meltzer, the author of the best-selling The Thinker’s Thesaurus and So You Think You Know Baseball?, is an attorney and a former professor at Rutgers University School of Law.
Reviews for So You Think You Know Baseball?
"Give this book to a fan and you might make yourself a friend for life."
Mark Flowers - School Library Journal "Robert’s Rules of Order for baseball."
Dan Shaughnessy, author of the New York Times bestseller Francona "Meltzer has pulled off a baseball feat as rare as a triple play. He’s managed to demystify—and in the process humanize—the ... Read more
Mark Flowers - School Library Journal "Robert’s Rules of Order for baseball."
Dan Shaughnessy, author of the New York Times bestseller Francona "Meltzer has pulled off a baseball feat as rare as a triple play. He’s managed to demystify—and in the process humanize—the ... Read more