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Baseball 101

The goal of this page is to serve as an encylopedia of pages and links which will help one learn about baseball. Whether a beginner or someone who has followed for years there is always seemly new things to learn.

Transactions and Contracts

Transactions - a list of transactions that occur

Tendering Contracts - a link to about.com on the process

MLB4U.com - A link to a website which displays current contracts for players

Keeping Score

How to Keep Box Score - a link to MLB’s page on keeping score of a game

Pitches - a wikipedia list of pitches such as fastball, knuckleball, curveball and more (decent)

Understanding Statistics - Our own page on our to figure out stats

Learning the Language

Aberrations - link to MLB’s official aberrations

Lingo - learn the meaning to the terms

The era’s of baseball - our definition of the often debated era’s of the game

Awards - what the different awards really mean