Description
Book SynopsisEssential for armchair umpires and scorekeepers, this guide challenges aficionados on every significant part of the Official Baseball Rules.
Trade Review"Give this book to a fan and you might make yourself a friend for life." -- Mark Flowers - School Library Journal
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Robert’s Rules of Order for baseball." -- Dan Shaughnessy, author of the New York Times bestseller Francona
"Meltzer has pulled off a baseball feat as rare as a triple play. He’s managed to demystify—and in the process humanize—the game’s complex and often arcane rulebook." -- Frank Fitzpatrick - Philadelphia Inquirer
"I loved this book. The amount of research that went into it made my head spin. It’s the real-life examples that make the difference." -- Grant Brisbee, editor, Baseball Nation
"This unique breakdown of [baseball’s] complex rules makes the labyrinthine regulations easy for even casual observers to understand…. So you think you know baseball? Check out this book and you’ll know a lot more!" -- Neil Pond - American Profile
"Absorbing." -- Dennis Drabelle - Washington Post
