Franklin BOOKMAN BLB-2039 User manual

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CARTRIDGE

User’s Guide

BLB-2039

Total Baseball

Encyclopedia 1996

™

www.franklin.com

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 batting and pitching

statistics, league standings, World Series re-

sults, and Award Winners. Simply install this

cartridge into your BOOKMAN to get started.

Installing Cartridges & Selecting Books .......................... 3

Using the Color Keys ...................................................... 4

Viewing a Demonstration ............................................... 4

Finding Player Statistics ................................................. 5

Finding Rookies .............................................................. 6

Finding Team Statistics .................................................. 7

Correcting Team Names ................................................. 8

Finding League Standings .............................................. 8

Finding World Series and Award Winners ....................... 9

Finding Bests and Worsts ............................................. 10

Using Ratios ................................................................. 11

Adding a Limiter ........................................................... 12

Adding Qualifiers ......................................................... 13

Putting It All Together .................................................. 14

Appendix A: Sample Ratios, Qualifiers, & Limiters ........ 16

Appendix B: Abbreviations ........................................... 17

Cartridge Care & Optional Features .............................. 18

Key Guide

Function Keys

CLEAR

Clears a request.

No effect.

MAX

(red) Types MAX to find

maximum statistics.

MIN

(green) Types MIN to find

minimum statistics.

GT/LT

(yellow) Types a Greater Than

(GT) or Less Than (LT) limiter in

a request.

BAT/PIT

(blue) Switches between

batting and pitching statistics.

CARD

Exits the selected book.

ON/OFF

Turns BOOKMAN on or off.

Other Keys

BACK

Backs up or erases letters.

ENTER

Enters a request or selects a

list item.

HELP

Shows help messages.

SPACE

Types a space or pages down

in help messages.

. ’

Types a decimal point.

Direction Keys

Moves in indicated direction.

CAP

+ Zooms to the beginning or

or end of an entry or list.

Star Key Combinations*

✩

Displays the next or

previous year’s statistics.

✩

+ Types a dash.

✩

+ Types a slash.

✩

+ N Shifts the top row of

letters to type numbers.

➤ Understanding the Color Keys

The color keys (red, green, yellow, and

blue) perform the functions listed above

only for the BOOKMAN book de-

scribed in this User’s Guide.

Other books have their own color key

functions, which are labelled on their

cartridges and listed in their User’s

Guides. For more information, read

“Using the Color Keys.”

*Hold

✩

while pressing the other key.

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 cartridge until it

snaps into place.

Installing Cartridges Selecting Books

Once you have installed a cartridge in

your BOOKMAN, you must select

which book you want to use.

1. Turn BOOKMAN on.

2. Press

CARD

These are sample books.

3. Press or to highlight

the book you want.

4. Press

ENTER

to select it.

➤ Auto Shutoff & Auto Resume

If you forget to turn off your BOOKMAN,

it will automatically shut off in two minutes.

Also, you can turn off BOOKMAN at

any screen. When you turn BOOK-

MAN on again, the screen that you

last viewed will appear.

➤ Removing Cartridges

Warning: When you remove a

cartridge to install another cartridge,

information that you entered in the

first cartridge will be erased.

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 keys

on your BOOKMAN change functions

according to which book is selected.

When the built-in book is selected, the

color keys function as labelled on the

BOOKMAN keyboard. When a book in

a cartridge is selected, the color keys

function as labelled on its cartridge.

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Viewing a Demonstration

Using the Color Keys

➤Help is Always at Hand

You can view a help message at any

screen by pressing

HELP

. Use the

direction keys or press

SPACE

to read

the help text. Then press

BACK

exit help.

To read a tutorial about this book,

press

HELP

at the REQUEST screen.

➤Changing the Contrast

You can change the screen contrast

by pressing

CLEAR

and then repeat-

edly pressing or .

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 player’s name.

To erase letters, press

BACK

or .

3. Press

ENTER

to view his full

name and career totals.

To find a pitcher’s batting statistics,

press

BAT/PIT

4. Press repeatedly to view

his biographical information.

All Hall of Fame players have HOF to the

right of their biographical information.

5. Use the arrow keys to view

his statistics.

6. To zoom directly to the

bottom of the page, hold

CAP

and then press .

You may zoom in any direction by

holding

CAP

and then pressing the

appropriate arrow key.

7. Press

CLEAR

when done.

Finding Player Statistics

➤Just Follow the Arrows

The flashing arrows on the right of

the screen show which arrow keys

you can press to move through

menus or view more text.

➤ 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 share that name.

➤ Correcting Players Names

If you misspell a player’s name, or

type a name that is ambiguous or un-

clear, don’t worry. This encyclopedia

will give you a list of matches and

corrections to the name you entered.

For example, type RIPKEN and press

ENTER

. All of the players who have

shared the name Ripken will be

listed. Use the arrow keys to move

the pointer to the desired player, and

press

ENTER

to select that player.

Every player in this encyclopedia is listed al-

phabetically by the year they began playing

major league baseball. Here is how to find

all of the rookies for a given year.

Type the desired year (e.g., 1994).

2. Press

ENTER

3. Use the arrow keys to view

player’s statistics.

4. Hold

✩

and press

to view the

next rookie listed alphabetically.

Or, hold

✩

and press

to view the

previous one.

5. Press

CLEAR

when done.

➤More About Finding Rookies

In addition, while viewing

any

player’s sta-

tistics you can view statistics of other play-

ers who were rookies the same year, by

holding

✩

and pressing

. For

example, you can look up a player (e.g.,

Nolan Ryan) and discover which players

began their career during the same year.

Finding Player Statistics Finding Rookies

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

To view the previous year’s statis-

tics hold

✩

and press

7. Press

CLEAR

when done.

Finding Team Statistics

To find a team’s annual batting and

pitching statistics, enter a team and a

year. A team can be a team’s name

(e.g.,

CUBS

), city (e.g.,

CHICAGO)

, or

city abbreviation (e.g.,

CHI)

. If you

don’t enter a year, you’ll view the

team’s statistics for the first year of a

team’s operation.

1. At the Request screen, type a

team name and a year.

To type the year, press

✩

plus the

numbered keys.

2. Press

ENTER

To view more team batting totals,

press .

3. Press to view individual

batting statistics.

➤ Player Statistics from Team List

When viewing team statistics, you can

view players’ career and annual statis-

tics simply by pressing

ENTER

when the

pointer is next to their name.

You also can find team statistics from

individual player statistics by pressing

ENTER

when the desired year is

marked.

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 league and

a year. To type the year hold the

✩

key and press the number keys.

2. Press

ENTER

3. Press repeatedly to view

the standings.

4. Press

ENTER

to view a marked

team’s statistics for that year.

Finding League StandingsCorrecting Team Names

If you enter a city or team name that is

ambiguous or unclear, this encyclope-

dia will give you a list of teams from

which to choose.

1. Type BRAVES and press

ENTER

A list of team choices appears.

2. Use the arrow keys to mark

1966-95 ATL BRAVES.

3. Press

ENTER

to view team

statistics.

4. Press

CLEAR

when done.

➤Misspelling Team Names

If you misspell a team or city name (e.g.,

YANKIES), you will view a list of players

whose names are close to what you en-

tered (e.g., HUGH YANCY

GEORGE

YANKOWSKI

, &

YANK TERRY).

Finding League Standings

5. To view a previous year hold

✩

and press

. To view the

following year’s standings

hold

✩

and press

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 to the 1994

baseball strike.

1. Type one of the following

requests (e.g., AW 1974):

To View... Type...

World Series Results

+ year

All Award Winners

+ year

Hall of Fame Players

HOF

2. Press

ENTER

NOTE: The next two steps do not

apply to Word Series results.

3. Press to move down the list.

4. Press

ENTER

to view a marked

player’s statistics.

NOTE: The next step does not ap-

ply to the Hall of Fame player list.

5. To view the next or previous

year hold

✩

and press

6. Press

CLEAR

when done.

➤ More About Standings

You can find teams’ won/loss

records and winning percentages

over several seasons by entering

their league and a year range. For

example, enter

NL 1990-1995

Finding World Series

and Award Winners

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