Franklin BLB-2017 User Manual

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Electronic Publishers

CARTRIDGE

Total Baseball™

ENCYCLOPEDIA

User’s Guide

BLB-2017

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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

batting and pitching stats from 1876-1994. You can also view team batting and pitching stats, league standings, World Series results, and Award Winners. Simply install this cartridge into your BOOKMAN to get started.

Installing Cartridges .......................................................	3
Selecting Books .............................................................	3
Using the Color Keys ......................................................	4
Viewing a Demonstration ...............................................	4
Finding Player Stats .......................................................	5
Finding Team Stats .........................................................	6
League Standings ...........................................................	7
Finding Winners .............................................................	8
Finding Bests & Worsts...................................................	9
Adding Ratios ..............................................................	10
Adding Limiters ............................................................	11
Adding Qualifiers .........................................................	12
Putting it All Together...................................................	13
Resetting BOOKMAN ...................................................	14
Appendix A: Sample Ratios, Qualifiers, & Limiters ........	15
Appendix B: Abbreviations ...........................................	16
Cartridge Care .............................................................	17

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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.
GT/LT	(yellow) Types Greater Than/
	Less Than limiter in a request.
BAT/PIT	(blue) Switches between bat-
	ting and pitching statistics.
CARD	Exits the selected book.
ON/OFF	Turns BOOKMAN on or off.

Understanding the Color Keys

The color keys (red, green, yellow, and blue) perform the functions listed above only for the book described in this User’s Guide.

Other books have their own color key functions, which are labelled on their cartridges or on the BOOKMAN keyboard. For more information, read “Using the Color Keys.”

	Other Keys
BACK	Backs up (e.g., erase letters).
CAP	Shifts . ‘ to type an apostrophe.
ENTER	Enters a request, or selects a
	menu item.
HELP	Displays a help message.
SPACE	Types a space, or pages down.
?	No effect.
. ‘	Types a decimal point.

	Direction Keys
	Moves in indicated direction.
CAP	+ Goes to start or end of an
or	entry, list, or help message.

				Star Key Combinations*
	+				Displays the next or
or	UP				previous year for a stat.
	+				Types a dash.
	+				Types a slash.
	+ N				Shifts the top row of letters
					to type numbers.
* Hold				while pressing the other key.

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Installing Cartridges		Selecting Books

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.

Removing Cartridges

Warning: When you remove a cartridge to install another cartridge, information that you entered in the first cartridge will be erased.

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.Pressor to highlight the book you want.

4.Press ENTER to select it.

About the Screen Illustrations

Some screen illustrations in this User’s Guide may differ from what you see on screen. This does not mean that your BOOKMAN or this cartridge is malfunctioning.

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Using the Color Keys		Viewing a Demonstration

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.

Remember, when you have selected and are using a cartridge book, the color keys function as labelled on that cartridge, not as labelled on your BOOKMAN keyboard.

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 demonstration.

If you want to stop the demonstration, press CLEAR .

Help is Always at Hand

You can view a help message at virtually any screen by pressing HELP . Press the Direction keys to read the help text. Then press BACK to exit.

To read a tutorial about this book, press HELP at the Request screen.

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.

A Quick Contrast Change

You can change the screen contrast

by pressing	CLEAR and then repeat-
edly pressing	or .

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Finding Player Stats		Finding Player Stats

One of the simplest and most common functions is to find information about a specific player. You accomplish this by simply entering his name.

You can find both a player’s pitching and batting stats by entering his name. If a player is primarily a pitcher then his pitching statistics will be displayed, and vice versa.

1.At the Request screen, type a player’s name.

To erase letters, press BACK or

.

2.Press ENTER to see his full name and rookie totals.

To find a pitcher’s batting stats,

press BAT/PIT .

3.Press to see his date of birth, weight, and height at which he played.

To zoom in any direction, press CAP and then the appropriate arrow key.

4.Press to see his annual stats.

To see more annual stats, press .

5.Press CLEAR when done.

More About Entering Names

You can enter players by their first and last name, last name and first name, or last name alone (e.g. MEL OTT, OTT MEL, or OTT).

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Finding Player Stats		Finding Team Stats

Misspelling a Name

If you misspell a name, or if you enter a name shared by more than one player, you must select a player from

a list of players. Use or to highlight a player. When the player you want is highlighted press ENTER .

Finding Rookies

To find all the rookies of a given year and their first-year stats, type a

year and press ENTER		. To see the
next rookie listed alphabetically,
hold and press		, to see the
previous one, hold		and press UP .

To find a specific team’s annual batting and pitching stats, enter a team and a year. You can enter a team’s name, city, or city abbreviation. If you don’t enter a year, you’ll see the team’s stats for the first year of its operation.

1.At the Request screen, type a team name and a year.

To type the year, press plus the numbered keys. If you don’t enter a year, you’ll see the team’s first year stats.

2.Press ENTER .

To see more team batting totals, press .

3.Press to see individual batting stats.

To see more batting stats, press .

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