Franklin HRS-100 User manual

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Table of Contents
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Guide to Keys.................................................................................3
Getting Started...............................................................................4
Installing Big League Baseball ........................................................4
Starting Big League Baseball.......................................................... 5
Adjusting the Display Color............................................................ 5
Getting Help Messages .................................................................. 5
Finding Player Statistics...............................................................6
Individual Career Statistics............................................................. 6
Hall of Fame Players ...................................................................... 7
Annual Award Winners................................................................... 8
Rookies by Year ............................................................................ 9
Finding Team Statistics...............................................................10
Single Season Totals ................................................................... 10
League Standings.........................................................................11
World Series Results ....................................................................12
Making Requests With MAX and MIN.........................................13
Best- and Worst-Ever List Requests............................................... 13
Requests With Ratios................................................................... 14
Requests With Numeric Limits .......................................................15
Requests With Team and Year Limits............................................. 17
Requests With Qualifiers...............................................................18
Typing Requests at the Request Line............................................. 19
Appendixes .................................................................................. 20
Troubleshooting Guide................................................................. 20
Statistical Categories................................................................... 21
Sample Ratios............................................................................. 22
Limiters and Qualifiers..................................................................23
Technical Specifications............................................................... 24
License Agreement.......................................................................25
Warranty...................................................................................................... 26
Index .............................................................................................27
Quick Reference Guide ...............................................................28

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What Big League Baseball™ Can Do
Congratulations! You now have a fast, easy, and fun way to find
thousands of baseball statistics.
With your Big League Baseball encyclopedia, you can. . .
• Find career and season batting and pitching statistics for every
player who has played in the National Leagues since 1876 or in
the American League since 1901.
• Find lists of players such as rookies for a given year;
Most Valuable Players, Rookie of the Year, and Cy Young
Award winners; and the Hall of Fame players.
• Find team statistics such as single-season batting and pitching
totals; individual player statistics; won-lost records over many
years; and league standings.
• Find winning and losing World Series teams, as well as
games played.
• Make your own list requests to find all-time bests and worsts in
23 statistical categories.
• Focus and fine-tune your requests by team, year, league,
and many other criteria.
Based on sophisticated technology by Franklin Electronic Publishers,
Inc., Big League Baseball is a powerful way to become a baseball
expert. It's like having your own baseball statistician!

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Guide to Keys
Function Keys
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F1 Starts searches for statistical lists. Except at the Qualifiers menu,
F1 works the same as the Enter key.
F2 Exits to the DOS prompt.
F3 Shows previous screen of statistics, alphabetically or
chronologically.
F4 Shows next screen of statistics, alphabetically or
chronologically.
F9 Lets you pick the display screen background color.
F10 Shows a help message appropriate to the current screen.
Other Keys
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A to Z Type letters player and team names, as well as
commands, Limiters, and Qualifiers.
Backspace Erases characters in the Request line.
End Zooms to the last line in a list.
Enter Starts searches for statistical lists.
Escape Pressed once, it returns screen to the Request line. Pressed twice,
it clears the Request line.
Home Zooms to the first line of a list.
Page Up and Scroll up and down lists a screen by screen.
Page Down
Spacebar Types a space between commands, statistics, Limiters,
and Qualifiers.
Up and Down (1) Scroll up and down lists line by line,
Arrow Keys and (2) select menu options.

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Getting Started
Installing Big League Baseball
To install and run Big League Baseball, your computer must meet these
specifications:
• an IBM PC or true compatible,
• an MS-DOS operating system, version 3.0 or higher,
• at least one 5.25 or 3.5 floppy disk drive,
• at least 640 kilobytes of RAM,
• at least 1.5 megabytes of free space on a hard disk drive, and
• a monitor.
Note: If a memory-resident program is installed on your computer, you may not have
sufficient RAM to run Big League Baseball. In that case, before installing Big League
Baseball, you should disable the memory-resident program.
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1. Insert Disk 1 into drive A or B.
2. At the DOS prompt, type A: or B:
3. Type HRSETUP.
4. Press the Enter key.
You're asked to select a drive.
5. Press the up and down arrow keys to select a drive.
6. Press the Enter key.
You're asked to select a subdirectory name. Select HRS100 unless you already
have a subdirectory with that name on your computer.
7. Press the Enter key again. Then press Y.
Your computer copies Disk 1 to the drive you selected.
8. Follow the instructions on the screen.

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Starting Big League Baseball
You can always start Big League Baseball from a DOS prompt by typing the letter of the
drive on which you installed the program, followed by a colon, followed by \HRS100.
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1. At a DOS prompt, type the drive on which you installed Big League Baseball,
a colon, and then \HRS100.
For example, C:\HRS100. Notice that \ is a backslash.
2. Press the Enter key.
You see Big League Baseball's display screen.
The Request line at the top shows Type a player's name. The Request line is where
you type or enter requests to find baseball statistics. It changes, depending on what
you can type or enter next.
Beneath the Request line is the Request menu. It displays the requests you can
make. You'll learn about them later.
At the bottom is the Function Key line. It tells which function keys you can press.
Adjusting the Display Color
You can select the best background color for the display by pressing F9.
Monochrome and some color monitors work best at the monochrome setting.
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1. Press F9.
2. Press the up and down arrow keys to highlight a color.
3. Press the Enter key.
Getting Help Messages
You can get a help message appropriate to the current screen by pressing F10.
When you want to exit a help message, press the Escape key.
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1. Press F10.
You see the main help message.
2. To exit the help message, press the Escape key.

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Finding Player Statistics
Individual Career Statistics
It's easy to find players' career statistics with Big League Baseball. Just highlight
Player Statistics on the Requests menu and then type a player's name.
You can type players' names by first name and last name, last name and first name,
or last name alone. For many players, you can even type nicknames.
For example, CATFISH HUNTER, HUNTER CATFISH, HUNTER, or CATFISH.
If you misspell a name or type a name that more than one player has, Big League
Baseball shows you a list of players. To select a player, press the arrow keys to
highlight his name. Then press the Enter key.
Big League Baseball first shows you a batter's battings statistics and a pitcher's
pitching statistics. To see the player's other statistics, if any, press F5.
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Let's find a player's career statistics.
1. On the Request menu, highlight Player Statistics.
2. At the Request line, type a player's name.
Press the spacebar to type a space between his first and last names.
3. Press F1 or the Enter key to start the search.
You see the player's career statistics listed by year. If you want to scroll up and down
the list, press the up and down arrow keys.
Now let's see if this player also has batting or pitching statistics.
4. Press F5.
You see a message if no other statistics are available for the player you typed. If you
want to return to the previous statistics, press F5 again.
5. When you're done, press the Escape key twice.

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Finding Player Statistics
Hall of Fame Players
You can see a list of all the Hall of Fame players, as well as the years they played, by
typing or entering HOF at the Request line. Hall of Fame players are listed by their
year of induction into Cooperstown.
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1. At the Request menu, press the arrow keys to highlight
Hall of Famers (HOF) and then press the Enter key.
If you like, you can type HOF directly on the Request line instead.
2. Press the Enter key again.
You see the Hall of Fame players.
3. Press the page down key.
You move down the list screen by screen. If you want to move up the list, press the
page up key. To zoom to the beginning or end of the list, press the Home or the End
key.
4. When you're done, press the Escape key twice.

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Finding Player Statistics
Annual Award Winners
Big League Baseball records all the Most Valuable Player, Cy Young, and Rookie of
the Year award winners. You can request them by typing or entering AW followed by
the year.
You can type years as four digits or two digits. To indicate nineteenth century years,
you must type four digits.
For example, 1991 or 91, but 1891.
Once you see the awards list, you can see the previous year's winners by pressing
F3. You can see the next year's winners by pressing F4.
Note: The Most Valuable Player Awards began in 1931, the Rookie of the Year
Award in 1947, and the Cy Young Award in 1957.
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1. At the Request Menu, press the down arrow key to highlight Awards.
2. Press the Enter key.
If you like, you can type AW directly on the Request line instead.
3. Type a year.
4. Press F1 or the Enter key.
You see the award winners for that year.
5. Press F3 to see the previous year's winners or F4 to see next year's.
If you want to see an award winner's career statistics, press the arrow keys to
highlight his name. Then press the Enter key. To return to the awards list, press the
backspace key.
6. When you're done, press the Escape key twice.

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Finding Players' Statistics
Rookies by Year
Big League Baseball considers a rookie year to be the first year a player recorded
any statistics. You can find every player who started his major league career in a
given year by highlighting Rookies by Year on the Request menu and then typing a
year.
Note: Due to the large number of players, searches for the rookies of recent years
may take a few minutes.
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1. At the Request menu, highlight Rookies by Year.
2. Type a year.
For this example, try 1876.
3. Press F1 or the Enter key.
You see career statistics for the first rookie listed for that year. For batters, you see
batting statistics. For pitchers, you see pitching statistics. If you want to see if the
batters have pitching statistics and vice versa, press F5.
4. Press F4.
You scroll through the list of rookies alphabetically. If you want to scroll back,
press F3.
5. When you're done, press the Escape key twice.

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Finding Team Statistics
Single Season Totals
You can see team batting and pitching statistics, as well as statistics for each player
on the team. Simply highlight Team Statistics on the Request menu. Then type a
team name and a year.
You can type teams by team name, city, or the city's common abbreviation.
For example, DODGERS, LOS ANGELES, or LA.
If you type a team that has had more than one home town, you'll see a list of cities. If
you type a city that has hosted more than one team, you'll see a list of teams. To
select a city or team, press the down arrow key. Then press the Enter key.
After you've seen team statistics, you can see career statistics for any player on the
team. Just highlight the player's name and then press the Enter key.
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1. On the Requests menu, press the down arrow key to highlight Team Statistics.
2. Type a team name or city.
3. Press the space bar once.
4. Type a year.
5. Press F1 or the Enter key.
You see the team and individual battings statistics for that year. If you want to scroll
up and down the list, press the up and down arrow keys now.
6. Press F5 to see the team pitching statistics.
If you want to return to the batting statistics, press F5 again.
7. Press the down arrow key to highlight a player.
8. Press the Enter key to see his career statistics.
If you want to return to the team statistics, press the backspace key.
9. When you're done, press the Escape key twice.