In Scoring Position

40 Years of a Baseball Love Affair

By: Bob Ryan, Bill Chuck

Narrated by: Pat Grimes, Chris Lutkin, Pete Cross

Bob Ryan has scored every baseball game he's attended, at every level, since the start of the 1977 season. It's a deeply personal tradition still going strong at more than 1,400 games and counting. The tattered scorebooks he's filled are worn from age, travel, and countless summer days, but their grids and scrawled symbols tell the stories of milestones, rivalries, rare historic achievements, and more. 

In Scoring Position captures the incomparable spirit of baseball, with its infinite possibilities and madcap anomalies. Ryan, alongside baseball historian and statistician Bill Chuck, has scoured his scorecard archives for the most singular events—a switch-hitter being hit by a pitch from both sides of the plate in the same game; a player batting for the cycle off four different pitchers; even back-to-back pinch-hit home runs with two outs in the 9th. Featuring some of the game's biggest names and wildest scenarios, this is a fascinating romp through baseball history, exuding a pure zeal for this sport that fans of all teams will recognize in themselves.

©2022 Bob Ryan and Bill Chuck (P)2022 Dreamscape Media, LLC

Enjoyable for baseball fans

Bob and Bill’s history was great. Enjoyed the vignettes and hearing names that I had not heard in years. You will really enjoy it if you live in the 617 area code. My complaint is that the narrators mispronounced several names that any baseball fan would immediately recognize