In Scoring Position In Scoring Position

In Scoring Position

40 Years of a Baseball Love Affair

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Publisher Description

A love letter to the game of baseball from one of America's foremost scribes

Bob Ryan has scored every baseball game he's attended, at every level, since the start of the 1977 season. It's a deeply personal tradition still going strong at more than 1,400 games and counting.

The tattered scorebooks he's filled are worn from age, travel, and countless summer days, but their grids and scrawled symbols tell the stories of milestones, rivalries, rare historic achievements, and more.

In Scoring Position captures the incomparable spirit of baseball, with its infinite possibilities and madcap anomalies. Ryan, alongside baseball historian and statistician Bill Chuck, has scoured his scorecard archives for the most singular events—a switch-hitter being hit by a pitch from both sides of the plate in the same game; a player batting for the cycle off four different pitchers; even back-to-back pinch-hit home runs with two outs in the 9th.

Featuring some of the game's biggest names and wildest scenarios, this is a fascinating romp through baseball history, exuding a pure zeal for this sport that fans of all teams will recognize in themselves.

Part of the collection at the library of the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum, this volume also features reproductions of dozens of scorecards from Ryan's collection.

GENRE
Sports & Outdoors
RELEASED
2022
May 10
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
256
Pages
PUBLISHER
Triumph Books
SELLER
Chicago Review Press, Inc. DBA Independent Publishers Group
SIZE
24.3
MB

Customer Reviews

winchou ,

pages of entertaining moments and factoids

great way to relive decades of baseball. read on an iPad and add your own youtube searches to complete the experience. for real fans, and Red Sox fans in particular. unfortunately, the Apple version has *garbage* images of the scorebook (minus one star for that alone) - the title of the book is all about the scoring!

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