The Baseball Field Guide is an armchair reference guide to the sport. It organizes and explains the vague, misleading, confusing, inconsistent, and obscure rules governing America's favorite pastime. This book is thorough, covering all the rules from the most basic to the most obtuse. Easy-to-use, it is designed to facilitate quick and intuitive searches. The guide offers several tools to help navigate through the thicket of information, including a logical sequence of topics, a helpful table...
A clear and comprehensive guide to the rules of baseball!
\ From Barnes & NobleYou don't have to be a Martian to find this book useful. Now in its second edition, the Baseball Field Guide can be read as a clearly written first primer on the rules of the sport or a refresher course on points that you have forgotten or just never learned. For example, how many of you out there know how many interleague games are played each season? The attractive, no-frills illustrations walk you through real game situations including making outs, stealing bases, and tagging up.\ \