The latest installment in our Keeping Score Season is also the latest volume in our Baseball Basics for Brits series.  Volume Six is concerned with ‘Keeping Score’(pdf) and it looks at the activity as a whole alongside introducing various scorekeeping methods for you to learn. 

Sensibly enough, it begins at the beginning by focusing on what you need to start scoring, the tools of the trade and the pre-game work to prepare your scorecard for action.  This introduction to keeping score then takes you through a basic ‘plate appearance outcomes’ method, before moving on to a standard ‘tracking base-progression’ method, while providing tips on general scorecard management and additional details you can record. 

It also covers post-game work (totals and proving your scorecard), examples of a few tricky plays, features on Official Scorers and the Reisner Scorekeeping system, a handy resources page and a list of abbreviations.

(Note that the link to our review of “Baseball Scorekeeping: A Practical Guide to the Rules” by Andres Wirkmaa will go live on 11 February).