Official scorekeeping is more complicated than just jotting down the runs, outs and final score of a baseball game, and this book explains the often confusing rules that govern scorekeeping. It clarifies the official scorer's duties, responsibilities and authority; the official scorer's reports; and game-to-game details such as player listings, called and forfeited games, RBIs, base hits, stolen bases, sacrifices, double and triple plays, errors, wild pitches and passed balls, bases on balls, strikeouts, earned runs, winning and losing pitchers, and saves.

With the aim of providing anyone interested in baseball scorekeeping everything he or she needs to perform the task, this book contains a thorough and comprehensive manual on keeping a scorecard, together with a detailed analysis of each of the numerous, and often complex, official rules governing scorekeeping in baseball, as well as scorekeeping issues outside of MLB's rulebook.