The Joy of Keeping Score
Subtitle: How Scoring the Game Has Influenced and Enhanced the History of Baseball
Publisher: Walker & Company
Published: March 20, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9780802715708
Subjects: Baseball; Sports & Recreation; Sports; Baseball - History; Sports & Recreation / Baseball / General; Baseball - General; Scorekeeping
First sentence: The urge to score is as old as the game itself and borrows significantly from the bookkeeping instincts of British cricketeers.