Help Topics

1. Feature Overview
2. Customer Service
3. Forgot Your Password
4. Want to learn the benefits of using The Official Scorer?
5. Caveats
6. Glossary of Terms
7. Official Scorer Terms: types of users
8. Official Scorer Terms: operational modes
9. Some helpful links for understanding baseball, its terminology, and scoring a baseball game
10. Organizational Links
11. Other Baseball-Related Sites
12. Baseball Books
13. Articles About Cool Baseball Web Sites
14. Help Fight Leukemia and Lymphoma

Customer Service

Forgot your password?

• First try retrieving your password on line using the Forgot your password? page. This page requires you to know your team name and username, plus you will also need to already have a valid email address associated with your personal account. If this doesn't work for you, move on to the next suggestion.
• If you are a player or coach on a team using The Official Scorer, please contact your team's manager. Your manager will be able to help you.
• If you are a team manager, please either send email to support@officialscorer.com or contact us at 732.462.5450.

• Sign up now for our free 30 day trial and you will soon, we hope, be hooked!
• Try our demonstration and experience The Official Scorer as either a manager or a player.

• This site is best viewed using Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or newer (available free from Microsoft). The Official Scorer has not  been tested with Netscape.
  
• The site is best used with a screen resolution of 1024x768 or higher.

Glossary of Terms

Official Scorer Terms: types of users

• Manager — the person who creates a team within The Official Scorer is termed the team's manager. This does not necessarily mean that the person is the team's on-field manager. Rather this person is the Manager in the Oficial Scorer context. In that regard the manager of an Official Scorer team can perform any operation (adding, modifying, deleting) on the data associated with that team including:
  • Roster entries (coaches and players)
  • Games on the team's schedule
  • Fields available for use on the team's schedule
  • News items and images to be published on the team's home page
  • The text of the team's home page banner
  • Set the default batting lineup used when printing out lineup cards and scorecards
  • Individual game data results (pitching, hitting, and fielding results)
  • Deciding whether or not game results are ready to be published for all players on the team to see
  • Deciding whether or not the privacy setting should be activated: turning on privacy keeps players on the same team from seeing their teammates individual results
  One and only one manager may be associated with any team.
• Player — a member of team who participates in the games but cannot modify any data associated with the team on The Official Scorer.
• Coach — a non-playing member of the team who can view unpublished game results and for whom the privacy setting does not apply. The coach cannot, however, modify any data associated with the team under The Official Scorer.

Official Scorer Terms: operational modes

• Demo — anyone may login to the Demo team as either the team's Manager or a Player from several locations on the site (including from the site's home page). Doing so gives you a chance to try out The Official Scorer without having to perform any data entry (e.g., adding players to a roster, fields, games to a schedule, or batting results). When logged in as a Demo team player, the site operates as it would normally for any user of type "Player" where the privacy setting is deactivated (you can see your teammates results). When logged in as a Demo team manager, the site operates as it would normally for a team manager with the following notable exception: the ability to modify any data is disabled. The difference between a player and manager experience in this case is that as manager you may visit more of the user interface and get a feeling for more of the application than as a player.
• Trial — a trial team is completely functional and has no disabled features. However, after the trial period expires access to the data is only possible by subscribing and upgrading the team's plan type from Trial to Basic.
• Basic — a fully operational (and paid for) one-year license to use the site for a team. The only actual restriction is that the license effectively applies to a single season of use for a team (meaning that a single schedule may be created).

• MLB.com - Major League Baseball's official site (home page).
  • Baseball Basics
  • Keeping Score
  • Baseball Lingo
• Baseball-Reference.com — All kinds of statistics and definitions regarding baseball.
• Baseball-Almanac.com — self-styled encyclopedia of baseball including in-depth facts and extensive stats.
• Baseball Stuff.com — Statistical definitions including Sabermetric definitions used by The Official Scorer.
• Big Bad Baseball — Interesting articles by a Sabermetrician.
• The Baseball Scorecard — A tutorial on scorekeeping for the casual baseball fan.
• The Baseball Archive — On-line Major League Baseball statistics and downloadable MLB stats databases.

Organizational Links

• Amateur Softball Association - USA Softball - Official site of the national governing body of USA softball.
• Babe Ruth League, Inc. - Babe Ruth League Baseball's official site.
• Little League Online - Little League Baseball's official site.
• USSSA Baseball - United States Specialty Sports Assocation's official baseball site.
• SlowPitch.org - All Association Softball Tournaments, Leagues and more.
• Tri-County Baseball League — local Lehigh, PA league.

• What If Sports — Simulation Baseball.
• Baseball Survivor — Place 100 players on an island and vote them off, one-by-one, with the least qualified players banished first. The last player remaining would be baseball's ultimate survivor, the best player in the history of MLB.
• National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
• Collegiate Baseball Newspaper — baseballnews.com — Self-styled Voice of Amateur Baseball
• Sports-Wired.com — The Baseball Cube — Baseball stats, player profiles, team information, major, minor league & college stats.
• Softball West Magazine
• Softball-bats.org — Blemished bats and close-outs on Easton, Demarini, Louisville softball, baseball bats and gloves.

Baseball Books

Note: Please consult other sources for the approrpriateness of these books with respect to children.

First row:

• Take Me Out to the Ballpark — An Illustrated Tour of Baseball Parks Past and Present — Great coffee table baseball book shaped in the form of a baseball stadium — Josh Leventhal.
• The Science of Hitting — Ted Williams and John Underwood.
• Baseball: A Literary Anthology — Nicholas Dawidoff.
• The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract — Bill James.
• Ball Four — Jim Bouton.
• The Boys Of Summer — Roger Kahn.

Second row:

• Moneyball — The Art Of Winning AN Unfair Game — Michael Lewis
• From Ghetto To Glory — Biography of Bob Gibson — Phil Pepe.
• The Teammates — Friendship of Dom Dimaggio, Bobby Doer, Johnny Pesky, and Ted Williams — David Halberstam.
• Cooperstown: Hall of Fame Players — Adomites, Nemec, Greenberger, Schlossberg, Tully, Palmer, and Shea.
• Chicken Soup for the Baseball Fan's Soul — Inspirational Stories of Baseball, Big-League Dreams and the Game of Life — Canfield, Hansen, Donnelly, Donelly, and Lasorda.
• Baseball Bafflers — volumes 1 and 2 — Quizzes, Trivia, Ballpark Challenges, and the Strangest Moments in Baseball History — Weiser.

Third row:

• For the Love of the Red Sox — An A-to-Z Primer for Red Sox Fans of All Ages — Frederick C. Klein
• Ted Williams — The Biography of an American Hero — Leigh Montville
• One Day At Fenway — A Day In The Life Of Baseball In America — Steve Kettmann
• When Boston Won the World Series — A Chronicle of Boston's Remarkable Victory in the First Modern World Series of 1903 — Bob Ryan
• Murder At Ebbets Field — A Mickey Rawlings Baseball Mystery — Troy Soos
• Murder At Wrigley Field — A Mickey Rawlings Baseball Mystery — Troy Soos

Articles About Cool Baseball Web Sites

Check out these articles about baseball related web sites.  Click on the thumbnails to see larger versions.

Baseball-reference.com	WhatIfSports.com	Number Games	Runs Created
Sports Illustrated	ESPN Magazine	Baseball America	USA Today
12/16/02 (470 KB)	3/17/03 (467 KB)	(246 KB)	5/04 (210 KB)

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