{"id":1913,"date":"2009-02-02T00:01:30","date_gmt":"2009-02-01T23:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=1913"},"modified":"2009-10-18T21:33:46","modified_gmt":"2009-10-18T20:33:46","slug":"why-baseball-fans-should-keep-score","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=1913","title":{"rendered":"Why baseball fans should keep score"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"center;\"><span style=\"12.0pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?page_id=1890\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"10px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gbbsa.org.uk\/images\/KssLogo.gif\" alt=\"Keeping Score Season\" width=\"200\" height=\"122\" \/><\/a>The launch of our Keeping Score season may have left some baseball fans thinking out loud: &#8220;well I&#8217;ve heard of this &#8216;keeping score&#8217; lark, but I&#8217;m not entirely sure what the point of it is&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 If that was your reaction then hopefully this article will help to answer some of your questions and encourage you to learn more about scorekeeping.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"center;\"><span style=\"12.0pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/wp-content\/WhyKeepScore.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Backward K\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s and 6-4-3 double plays: Why baseball fans should keep score&#8221;<\/a>(pdf) is a modified version of a piece I originally wrote for the Great Britain Baseball Scorers Association <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gbbsa.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a> last year.\u00c2\u00a0 It is also the first published example of our new &#8216;full article&#8217; format that you will be seeing more of over the rest of this year and beyond.\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"center;\"><span style=\"12.0pt;\">If the article prompts any queries, please feel free to ask questions via the comments box below.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The launch of our Keeping Score season may have left some baseball fans thinking out loud: &#8220;well I&#8217;ve heard of this &#8216;keeping score&#8217; lark, but I&#8217;m not entirely sure what the point of it is&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 If that was your reaction then hopefully this article will help to answer some of your questions and encourage you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[91,560],"class_list":["post-1913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-keeping-score","tag-articles","tag-keeping-score"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1913"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5670,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1913\/revisions\/5670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}