Batter Up! The Ultimate Baseball Scorekeeper (Spiral-bound)

~ Benjamin Eli Smith (Author), Benjamin Eli Smith (Author) "FOR MORE THAN A CENTURY, SCORE-KEEPING HAS BEEN THE SECRET CODE OF BASEBALL FANS..." (more)
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Editorial Reviews

Product Description

The crack of the bat, the roar of the crowd-these are the sounds of summer across the USA. With this record keeper you can capture every exciting moment. Batter Up! includes a season's worth of score sheets for you to follow your favorite team, along with instructions on how to score an official game, room for writing down your baseball memories, and fun facts about baseball's history and lore-plus a plastic pocket to hold souvenirs. It's the perfect companion for fans of America's favorite pastime.

About the Author

Benjamin Eli Smith is an award-winning freelance journalist who enjoys nothing better than riding the subway to Yankee Stadium, balancing a scorecard on one knee, and a hot dog on the other.

Product Details

• Spiral-bound: 128 pages
• Publisher: Chronicle Books; Book and Access edition (April 15, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0811826112
• ISBN-13: 978-0811826112
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 7.8 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #815,596 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

27 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Perfect book...for a child, April 8, 2001

By	J. Harrison (Washington USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I don't really want 2 pages of every four dedicated to where I sat, what I ate, and "place ticket stub here" type of things. I just wanted a book to score games in...I got half of what I paid for. If you want a book to score games in and you are under 10 years old, then this book is fine. If you are an adult and want to score games, get something else.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Attractive and Useful!, October 29, 2004

By	Robin Currier - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

What a great scorekeeping book! I had been looking for a baseball scorecard book that was small enough to put in my purse when I go to a game. This book exceeded my expectations!

It has a nice sturdy ring binding that lets you fold the book over to just the page you want to use, and it is a very nice size. However it has a lot of other features:

1. A pencil pouch on the outside of the book keeps your pencil handy. Nice idea!

2. Very nice design: attractive color printing, amusing cartoons, fun extras.

3. Although the scorecards themselves are attractive, but plain--all business, in other words--there are lots of other pages that would be fun for kids and casual scorekeepers for keeping track of all the details of a game: what you ate, who sang the national anthem, who you went to the game with, etc. And there are also pages for people who are playing baseball to keep track of your own stats. Although I probably won't use those extra pages, I think kids would love them.

4. The book contains some basic instructions on how to keep score, which I found useful.

All in all, a great book. Too bad it doesn't seem to be published anymore. I had to buy mine from a private seller.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Nice, but not what I was looking for..., June 5, 2003

By	A. Polson (Colchester, VT United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

My boyfriend and I are baseball junkies, and planned a minor league tour of New England last year. I keep score at all of the games we go to, and so, I thought a new scorebook where I could combine all the information from that tour would be a neat keepsake. This book was good for that purpose, but wasn't quite what I wanted. I wanted just a baseball scorebook...this is more to take to the game with your kid, esp. if you are following one team. If I had kids, this book would be perfect. The scoring squares are a little on the small side, but then again I have a weird scoring shorthand. Great for kids, but not for the serious ball fan.