{"id":1919,"date":"2009-02-04T00:01:26","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T00:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=1919"},"modified":"2009-10-18T21:00:12","modified_gmt":"2009-10-18T20:00:12","slug":"bbfb-volume-6-keeping-score","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?p=1919","title":{"rendered":"BBfB: Volume 6. Keeping Score"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><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 latest installment in our Keeping Score Season is also the latest volume in our <a href=\"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/?page_id=363\">Baseball Basics for Brits<\/a> series.\u00c2\u00a0 Volume Six\u00c2\u00a0is concerned with <a href=\"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/wp-content\/06KeepingScore.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Keeping Score&#8217;<\/a>(pdf)\u00c2\u00a0and it looks at the activity as a whole alongside introducing various scorekeeping methods for you to learn.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"12.0pt;\">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\u00c2\u00a0your scorecard for action.\u00c2\u00a0 This introduction to keeping score then takes you through a basic &#8216;plate appearance outcomes&#8217; method, before moving on to a standard &#8216;tracking base-progression&#8217; method, while providing tips on general scorecard management and additional details you can record.\u00c2\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"12.0pt;\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"12.0pt;\"><em>(Note that the link to our review of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Baseball Scorekeeping: A Practical Guide to the Rules\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Andres Wirkmaa will go live on 11 February).<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest installment in our Keeping Score Season is also the latest volume in our Baseball Basics for Brits series.\u00c2\u00a0 Volume Six\u00c2\u00a0is concerned with &#8216;Keeping Score&#8217;(pdf)\u00c2\u00a0and it looks at the activity as a whole alongside introducing various scorekeeping methods for you to learn.\u00c2\u00a0 Sensibly enough, it begins at the beginning by focusing on what 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":[560],"class_list":["post-1919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-keeping-score","tag-keeping-score"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919","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=1919"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5566,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919\/revisions\/5566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baseballgb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}