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Contents
Welcome to the world of BOOKMANTM!BOOKMAN is a powerful, portable electronic reference with a built-in book and a slot in the back for more books. With this Total Baseball Encyclopedia you can find players' career batting and pitching stats from 1876-1994. You can also view team batting and pitching stats, league standings, World Series results, and Award Winners. [. . . ] MEL OTT, OTT MEL, or OTT).
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Finding Player Stats Misspelling a Name If you misspell a name, or if you enter a name shared by more than one player, you must select a player from or to a list of players. Finding Rookies To find all the rookies of a given year and their first-year stats, type a year and press ENTER . To see the next rookie listed alphabetically, hold and press , to see the previous one, hold and press .
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Finding Team Stats
To find a specific team's annual batting and pitching stats, enter a team and a year. If you don't enter a year, you'll see the team's stats for the first year of its operation. At the Request screen, type a team name and a year.
To type the year, press plus the numbered keys. If you don't enter a year, you'll see the team's first year stats. Press BAT/PIT to see team pitching stats.
League Standings
League standings include won/loss percentage (PCT) and games behind first place (GB). Press CLEAR when done.
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Type a space between the league and a year. Press repeatedly to see the standings.
Player Stats from Team List At team stats, you can see players' career and annual stats simply by pressing ENTER when their names are highlighted.
Eastern Division records are shown first, the Central Division (only for 1994) second, and the Western Division last. Press CLEAR when done.
Finding Winners
You can find awards and achievements with the Total Baseball Encyclopedia. WS AW + year HOF
More About Standings You can find teams' won/loss records and winning percentages over seasons by entering their league and a year range. Bad Requests If you see the "Bad Request" message, check the following: ·that you typed correct stat abbreviations and spaces between each element in your request. ·that your ratio doesn't mix batting and pitching stats or contain a ratio. Press CLEAR when done.
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Finding Bests & Worsts
You can search for the best and worst players for a specific stat by using the MAX and MIN keys followed by a stat abbreviation. Press MAX and then type a stat abbreviation.
Finding Bests and Worsts 5. You can request player lists using the biographical stats: HT for Height, WT for Weight, and AGE for Age. For example, enter MAX WT to see baseball's heavyweights.
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Adding Ratios
A ratio is one stat divided by another. You can type a ratio rather than a single stat after MAX or MIN in your requests. However, ·you can't divide a batting stat by a pitching stat or vice versa (e. g. AB/IP), and ·you can't use stats in ratios that are already ratios (i. e. , BA, ERA, SLG). Press ratio.
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Adding Ratios About Infinite Ratios The value of a ratio is infinite when its denominator is zero. For example, if you enter MAX W/L, then press to view the stats, you'll see this:
and then type a INF (infinite) means that Ben Shields and others never lost a game. [. . . ] NO FRANKLIN DEALER, AGENT, OR EMPLOYEE IS AUTHORIZED TO MAKE ANY ADDITIONAL WARRANTY IN THIS REGARD OR TO MAKE ANY MODIFICATION OR EXTENSION OF THIS EXPRESS WARRANTY. THE FOREGOING WARRANTY IS EXCLUSIVE AND IS IN LIEU OF ALL OTHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, WRITTEN OR ORAL, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY SHALL BE FRANKLIN'S OBLIGATION TO REPLACE OR REFUND AS SET FORTH ABOVE IN THIS WARRANTY. Some States do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties, or limitations on how long a warranty lasts. [. . . ]