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This book will teach you how to keep score at baseball games, whether you're a fan at the ball park, a player in a league, or a family member of a young ball player.

With clear instructions and over 45 diagrams, the goal is to provide you with skills you can practice immediately, even after your first lesson. Three sections (Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced) enhance and build upon those skills.

Lots of tips, based on questions which come up most often at scorekeeping clinics.  As of this printing, covers every scorekeeping situation found in the Major League Baseball's Official Baseball Rules book.

About the Author: S L Schell, a former member of the National Association of Scorers, has kept score for baseball and softball leagues for over thirty years, from sandlot baseball to state tournaments.

The author has taught hundreds of individuals in scorekeeping clinics for multiple city leagues, worked on rules committees, and was responsible for editing a scoresheet convention used by three different leagues. Official scorekeeper for Washington State tournament the year that Kirkland, Washington, USA won the Little League® World Series.