ARC Review: Baseball Field Guide, Fourth Edition: An In-Depth Illustrated Guide to the Complete Rules of Baseball

Baseball Field Guide, Fourth Edition: An In-Depth Illustrated Guide to the Complete Rules of Baseball by Dan Formosa
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

5 stars

I decided it would be a really good idea to get into baseball for real because I read a baseball romance book or two and was ~influenced ~. I thought I would be able to pick it up quick because I've been regularly exposed to baseball as I am a red blooded American and you can't go five feet without ending up in a ballpark or watching Moneyball again. But that was my sports watching hubris tricking me because baseball is absolute nonsense to watch (or listen to) if you don't know what's going on.

That's where this book comes in! I wanted a quick reference for the structure of the game and the rules because the best way to tell sportsbros they are wrong on the internet is with citations. The baseball field guide was especially helpful because it has a chapter on how the game is played and what the heck is going on out there, helpful diagrams, a description of all eight million ways a balk can happen, and descriptions and diagrams for all the other (written) Rules of Baseball. It has helped me open my third eye to the Knowledge of the Baseball and I can now mostly understand what's going on and argue with people online about it after.

I have not read it cover to cover because it's meant as more of a quick reference when a baseball thing happens in a game so I look it up when my team does something to better understand what the heck just happened and why. Next up is looking up the infield fly rule lol.

Highly recommend to anyone looking for a quick reference on baseball rules! Go Rays!

I received an ARC copy of this book from Netgalley in exchange for my honest review. All opinions are my own.

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