The Rally Towel Recommends!
Scorecard Week 2025
If you’re reading The Rally Towel for the sixth consecutive day, you must really like reading. In today’s Scorecard Week special edition, I’ve got two book recommendations for you about keeping score.
The Joy of Keeping Score: How Scoring the Game Has
Influenced and Enhanced the History of Baseball
By Paul Dickson
If Rawlings gave Gold Glove awards for the best utility man in 1996, this book would have won it. The Joy of Keeping Score does it all. It’s part scorecard history book, part scorekeepers’ almanac, and includes several scorecards from historic games. Tim Kurkjian leads off the book with a wonderful foreword and Paul Dickson does the rest. This book is pretty compact, measuring at 7x7 inches and just over 100 pages, it packs a solid punch, much like HoJo in 1986.
My Mets Bible: Scoring 30 Years of Baseball Fandom
by Evan Roberts
If there’s one true Mets fan still working at WFAN, it's Evan Roberts. He’s always been my favorite and the guy I’ve been able to relate to the most in my love for the team. This book is a time machine that takes readers through 4 decades (90s-2020s) of Metropolitan baseball, with his massive collection of scorecards as the vehicle. This book is perfect for casual reading, as each scorecard is its own story. For any diehard Mets fan, My Mets Bible is a must-have.
Tomorrow is an off-day for The Rally Towel, but we’ll be back on Sunday with a Scorecard Week edition of Mets Laundry! If you haven’t already, consider entering our Guess that Play! giveaway for a chance to win a pretty sweet scorebook courtesy of
7-2 Double Play.
