Franklin BLB-2039 User Manual

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Electronic Publishers

CARTRIDGE

Total Baseball™

Encyclopedia 1996

User’s Guide

BLB-2039

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 results, 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

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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.
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 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 BOOKMAN book described 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.”

		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*

+ DN

or UP

+

+

+ N

Displays the next or previous year’s statistics.

Types a dash.

Types a slash.

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.

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 BOOKMAN on again, the screen that you last viewed will appear.

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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.

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 any

screen by pressing HELP	. Use the
direction keys or press	SPACE to read

the help text. Then press BACK to 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 repeatedly pressing or .

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Finding Player Statistics		Finding Player Statistics

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 primarily a batter, then his batting statistics 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.

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.

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Finding Player Statistics

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 unclear, 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.

Finding Rookies

Every player in this encyclopedia is listed alphabetically by the year they began playing major league baseball. Here is how to find all of the rookies for a given year.

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

2.Press ENTER .

3.Use the arrow keys to view player’s statistics.

4.Hold and press DN to view the next rookie listed alphabetically.

Or, hold and press UP to view the previous one.

5.Press CLEAR when done.

More About Finding Rookies

In addition, while viewing any player’s statistics you can view statistics of other players who were rookies the same year, by holding and pressing UP or DN . For example, you can look up a player (e.g., Nolan Ryan) and discover which players began their career during the same year.

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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.

Finding Team Statistics

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.

Player Statistics from Team List

When viewing team statistics, you can view players’ career and annual statistics 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.

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