Joy of Keeping Score How Scoring the Game Has Influenced and Enhanced the History of Baseball

"This book is not only a 'how-to-do-it' primer, it is also a celebration of the intricacies of scoring, the infinite variety of symbols employed by those who put pencil (or pen) to scorecard, the common language that transcends individual scoring systems and, above all, the gyroscopic power that scoring exerts, allowing us to keep our minds on the game, vendors and ushers and wave-ites...be damned.Dickson, Paul is the author of 'Joy of Keeping Score How Scoring the Game Has Influenced and Enhanced the History of Baseball' with ISBN 9780156005166 and ISBN 0156005166.