Title: Thorough and Very Readable
Review: As an official scorer for a university baseball team, I was pleased to run across Andres Wirkmaa's book, Baseball Scorekeeping. I was hoping to find a text that would serve as a guide to resolving those "knotty problems" that come up every once in a while that present real challenges to any official scorekeeper. Wirkmaa's handy little book accomplishes that, and more. It takes the reader through Rule 10 of the Official Rules of Baseball, step by step, with plenty of examples. Wirkmaa mixes a decidedly scholarly tone -- he is an attorney by trade -- with a sense of humor, all in a very approachable and engaging style. I would have liked to see a few examples of scoring notation to supplement each rule, but since many scorekeepers have their own symbols and tricks, this may have been difficult to do without confusing novice readers. The book is well written, clearly organized, and valuable to anyone who is involved in scorekeeping.
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