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Franklin BOOKMAN BLB-2039 User Manual

Manual is about: Total Baseball Encyclopedia 1996

Summary of BOOKMAN BLB-2039

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    Electronic publishers ® electronic publishers cartridge user’s guide blb-2039 total baseball encyclopedia 1996 ™ www.Franklin.Com.

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    1 contents welcome to the world of bookman ™ ! Bookman is a powerful, portable electronic reference with a built-in book and a slot in the back for more books. With this total baseball encyclopedia you can find players’ career bat- ting and pitching statistics from 1876-1995. You can also view team ...

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    2 key guide function keys clear clears a request. Menu no effect. Max (red) types max to find maximum statistics. Min (green) types min to find minimum statistics. G t / l t (yellow) types a greater than (gt) or less than (lt) limiter in a request. Bat/pit (blue) switches between batting and pitchin...

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    3 warning: never install or remove a cartridge when your bookman is turned on. If you do, information that you entered in its built-in book and in an installed cartridge will be erased. 1. Turn bookman off. 2. Turn bookman over. 3. Align the cartridge tabs with the notches in the slot. 4. Press the ...

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    4 before you start using this book, you may want to view a demonstration of what it can do. Once you have installed the cartridge and selected this book, type demo and press enter to view the demon- stration. If you want to stop the dem- onstration, press clear . The red, green, yellow, and blue key...

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    5 you can find a player’s pitching and batting statistics by entering the player’s name. If a player is primarily a pitcher then his pitching statistics will be displayed first, or if a player is pri- marily a batter, then his batting statis- tics will be displayed first. 1. Press clear . 2. Type a ...

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    6 ➤ more about entering names you can enter players by their first and last name, last and first name, last name alone, or even by first or nickname alone (e.G. Mel ott, ott mel, ott, or mel). Note: by entering only a player’s first or last name, the encyclopedia will find all of the players who sha...

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    7 4. Press bat/pit to view team pitching statistics. 5. Press repeatedly to view team members’ pitching statistics. 6. To view the following year’s statistics hold ✩ and press dn . To view the previous year’s statis- tics hold ✩ and press up . 7. Press clear when done. Finding team statistics findin...

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    8 league standings include number of wins, number of losses, won/loss per- centage (pct), and games behind first place (gb). Eastern division records are shown first, the central division second, and the western division last, when appli- cable. 1. Type nl or al and a year. Type a space between the ...

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    9 finding league standings 5. To view a previous year hold ✩ and press up . To view the following year’s standings hold ✩ and press dn . 6. Press clear when done. You can find awards and achievements with this encyclopedia. Note: you will not be able to find a listing for the 1994 world series due t...

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    10 finding bests and worsts you can find a list of the up to 50 best or worst players for a specific statistic by using the max and min keys fol- lowed by a stat abbreviation. Note: a list of all of the stat abbrevia- tions that can be used in a request can be found in “appendix b abbreviations” . 1...

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    11 using ratios a ratio is one stat abbreviation divided by another. You can type a ratio rather than a single stat abbreviation after max or min in your requests. However, • you can’t divide a batting stat abbre- viation by a pitching stat abbreviation or vice versa (e.G. Ab/ip), and • you can’t us...

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    12 adding a limiter adding a limiter to limit the statistical range of your re- quests, type a limiter following max or min and the stat abbreviation or ratio. A limiter searches for statistics that are greater than or less than a particular number. Requests with limiters always have this structure:...

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    13 adding qualifiers you can also limit a request with one or more qualifiers. Qualifiers limit an entry to a specific quality (e.G., a team or a year.) team qualifiers to narrow your lists to a single team, add a team qualifier to your requests. You can type only one team qualifier in a request. If...

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    14 adding qualifiers putting it all together to find highly specific lists, add a lim- iter and some qualifiers to your re- quests. You can add a limiter, a team qualifier, and as many other qualifiers as make sense, up to 48 characters. Your qualifiers can be in any order. Advanced requests often w...

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    15 2. Press enter . 3. Use arrow keys to view players and statistics. 4. Press enter to view a player’s career statistics. 5. Press clear when done. Putting it all together resetting bookman if the bookman keyboard fails to re- spond, or if its screen performs errati- cally, first press clear and th...

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    16 appendix a: sample ratios, qualifiers, & limiters batting hr/ab r/ab rbi/ab rbi/h 3b/ab team team name city city abbreviation name + city greater than gt pitching w/l so/ip bb/ip so/bb so/h year single year starting year ending year year-range less than lt biographical hr/wt rbi/wt 3b/wt hr/age s...

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    17 here are the abbreviations that you can use in your requests with the total base- ball encyclopedia. Appendix b: abbreviations batting stat abbreviations at-bats ................................... Ab batting average ...................... Ba doubles .................................. 2b hits ......

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    18 cartridge care • do not damage the contacts on the cartridges or slot. Caution: touching these electrical contacts with statically charged ob- jects, including your fingers, could erase information entered in a car- tridge or built-in book. • do not expose the cartridges to heat, cold, or liquids...

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    19 franklin warrants to you that the bookman product will be free from defects in materials and workmanship for one year from purchase. In the case of such a defect in your bookman product, franklin will repair or replace it without charge on return, with purchase receipt, to the dealer from which y...

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    20 index abbreviations 17 ac adaptor jack 18 adding a limiter 12 qualifiers 13 advanced requests 14 arrows, following 5 auto resume 3 auto shutoff 3 award winners 9 bad requests 15 bests & worsts, finding 10 biographical information 10 biographical statistics, limiting 12 bookman, resetting & troubl...

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    21 index matching players 6 teams 8 max 10 min 10 misspelling correcting 6 team names 8 moving the pointer 6 other keys 2 player, matching 6 player statistics, finding 5 player statistics from team list 7 qualifiers adding 13 other 14 sample 16 team 13 year 13 ratios sample 16 using 11 rookies, find...

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    24 license agreement read this license agreement before using any bookman cartridge. Your use of the bookman cartridge deems that you accept the terms of this license. If you do not agree with these terms, you may return this package with purchase receipt to the dealer from which you purchased the b...

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    Electronic publishers ® electronic publishers cartridge user’s guide blb-2039 total baseball encyclopedia 1996 ™ www.Franklin.Com.