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Summary: The first step in using a baseball score book is listing the players by batting order on the left-hand margin of the page. Find out how to fill out a baseball score book one pitch at a time with help from a professional baseball instructor in this free video on keeping score in baseball.
Mickey Hiter played baseball at Lipscomb University. In addition to being a professional baseball instructor at Hit After Hit Baseball Academy, Hiter's baseball teams have won more...read more
"I'm Mickey Hiter with Sandlott Baseball and the question has been asked, how to use a baseball score book? First thing you need to do is obtain a baseball score book much like this one. You'll have two pages for each game, one for each team. The players will be listed in the batting order on the left hand margin here of the score book and it has a place to list substitute should a player be substituted for. The good thing about this type of score book is each individual in it, there's a little block where they filled on it. There's also some blocks for balls, strikes, and outs. So, you literally record one pitch at a time in the little block as it pertains to that particular player. If a player gets a base hit to right field, you'll draw a little line for home plate after right field beside in the block near the player's name and then whatever result from there, you'll continue to track that player as he continues to go around the bases or he's retired but makin' an out somewhere. And basically you go each individual inning for both teams with each individual player and pitch by pitch record the results of what happens. These books are pretty much self-explanatory. It's got little blocks for balls, little blocks for strikes and little blocks for outs and you color those in or you draw a line says to what happens. There's a little legend, in most score books it tells you how to score a fly ball that's caught or a base hit or a home run and has more or less definitions and abbreviations for what happens. So, basically, get yourself a score book, record the batting order for each team and then record individually pitch by pitch what happens and that's how to use a baseball score book."
eHow Article: How to Use a Baseball Score Book