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.

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Finding Team Statistics
League Standings
You can find American and National League final standings for any year simply by
typing or entering the league and then typing the year.
You can even find teams' cumulative won-lost records and percentages over many
seasons by typing a year range. In this way, you can find the winningest team of the
80s, or the past two seasons, and so on.
Year ranges can be a starting year, an ending year, or both. Type a hyphen to
indicate the range.
For example, 1945-, -1900, or 1981-91.
After seeing the standings, you can find team statistics simply by highlighting a team
and then pressing the Enter key.
Note: Requests with year ranges on Big League Baseball always include statistics for
the terminal years. In other words, 1945- includes statistics from 1945, and -1900
includes statistics for the1900 season.
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1. At the Request line, type AL or NL. Or press the down arrow key
to highlight a league on the Requests menu, and then press the Enter key.
2. Type a year or year range.
For this example, try 1991. Be sure to type a space after AL or NL.
3. Press F1 or the Enter key.
You see the 1991 league standings. If you typed a year range in Step 2, you see
cumulative won/lost record and percentages.
Now let's find team statistics.
4. Press the down arrow key to highlight a team.
5. Press the Enter key.
You see the 1991 team and individual statistics for the team you selected. If you
want to see the team's statistics for previous years, press F3 now.
6. When you're done, press the Escape key twice.

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Finding Team Statistics
World Series Results
You can see the winning team, losing team, and number of games played for every
World Series since 1903. Just type or enter WS, a space, and the year. If you want
to see all the Series winners and losers, enter 1903- for the year.
Note: Big League Baseball does not include individual player or game statistics for
the World Series. Also, League Championship Series are not recorded.
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1. At the Request menu, press the down arrow to select World Series (WS).
2. Press the Enter key.
3. Type a year or year range.
For this example, type 1922 or just 22. If you do, you see WS 1922 at the Request
line.
4. Press F1 or the Enter key.
You see the Series results. If you typed a year range, press the up and down arrow
keys, or page up and page down, to scroll through the results.
5. When you're done, press the Escape key twice.

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Making Requests With MAX and MIN
Best- and Worst-Ever List Requests
With Big League Baseball, you can find best- and worst-ever lists in 23 statistical
categories. Just type or enter MAX or MIN at the Request line. Then type a
statistical category.
MAX stands for maximum, most, or highest. MIN stands for minimum, fewest, or
lowest. The 23 statistical categories, or statistics, are divided into 11 batting
statistics, nine pitching statistics, and three biographical statistics. For a complete list
of statistical categories, see Appendix B in this manual.
When you combine MAX or MIN and a statistic, you create simple best- or worst-ever
requests.
For example, MAX HR asks for batters with the most home runs. MIN ERA asks
for pitchers with the lowest earned run averages.
Your lists may contain up to 100 players. Later in this manual you'll learn how to
focus your requests with Limiters and fine-tune them with Qualifiers.
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1. At the Request menu, press the down arrow key to highlight
Maximum (MAX). Then press the Enter key.
You see MAX at the Request line. You also see the Statistics and Qualifiers menus.
2. Press the right arrow key.
You see the Batting Statistics menu.
3. At the Batting Statistics menu, press the down arrow key to highlight a
statistical category. Then press the Enter key.
For this example, select Home Runs (HR). You should see MAX HR at the Request
line. MAX HR asks for the all-time home run leaders.
4. Press F1 or the Enter key to find the list.
You see the all-time home run leaders, ranked by career home runs.
5. Press the down arrow key to scroll down the list.
If you want to move up and down screen by screen, press the page up and down
keys now. To zoom to the beginning or end of the list, press the Home or End key.
6. When you're done, press the Escape key twice.

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Making Requests With MAX and MIN
Requests With Ratios
Ratios are one statistic divided by another, such as HR/AB or SO/BB. Since Big
League Baseball records up to 23 statistics for each player, you can create more than
500 ratios for use in list requests. For a list of useful ratios, see Appendix C in this
manual.
Some ratios, however, are not very meaningful, and some are not allowed.
For example. . .
• You can use obscure ratios such as 3B/2B or SV/BB, but the results
may not be useful.
• You can't mix batting and pitching statistics, such as AB/IP or RBI/SV.
• You can't use BA (batting average), ERA (earned run average),
or SLG (slugging percentage) in ratios because they are already ratios.
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1. On the Request menu, press the down arrow key to highlight Maximum
(MAX). Then press the Enter key.
2. On the Statistics menu, press the down arrow key to highlight Pitching Statistic/
3. Press the right arrow key.
You see the Pitching Statistics menu.
4. On the Pitching Statistics menu, press the down arrow key
to highlight a statistical category. Then press the Enter key.
For this example, select Strikeouts (SO).
5. On the Focus Your Request menu, press the Enter key to select Make a ratio (/).
6. On the Statistics menu, press the Enter key to select another statistic.
Try Innings Pitched (IP). You should now see MAX SO/IP on the Request line. MAX
SO/IP asks for the pitchers with the highest strikeout-to-innings-pitched ratio.
7. Press F1 or the Enter key.
Joe Cleary and Jim Mosolf aren't exactly Hall of Famers. The problem is that your
ratio has no lower limit. The next section shows you how to add Limters to requests.
8. When you're done, press the Escape key twice.

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Making Requests With MAX and MIN
Requests With Numeric Limits
You can limit your requests to specific statistical ranges by typing or entering the
numeric Limiters, GT, for greater than, and LT, for less than. GT limits your request
to players with statistics greater than a number you specify. LT limits your request to
players with statistics less than a number you specify.
Whenever you use GT or LT in a request, you must first type or enter a statistic or
ratio to be limited. Then you must type a number as the limit.
For example, in the request MAX RBI HR LT 100, HR is the statistic to be limited,
LT is the numeric Limiter, and 100 is the limit. This request asks for the players
with the most runs batted in (MAXRBI) who have less than 100 career home runs
(HR LT 100).
Remember that the numeric Limiter must be preceded by its own statistic.
For example, MAX HR GT 30 is not a valid request.
But MAX HR HR GT 30 is.
Note: You can type or enter no more than two numeric Limiters in a list request.
For example, MIN BA HR GT 30 SLG GT .400 SB LT 50 is not
a valid request because it contains three numeric Limiters.
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1. At the Request line, type MAX SO/IP.
Be sure to type a space between the X and the S, as well as after P. If you need to
erase letters, press the backspace key.
2. Press the space bar once.
3. On the Focus Your Request menu, press the Enter key to select
Add a Limiter.
4. Press the right arrow key.
You see the Statistic to Limit menu. If you're limiting a ratio--as you are in this
example--it's wise to limit the denominator. The denominator is the second statistic in
the ratio.
5. On the Statistic to Limit menu, press the Enter key to select Innings Pitched.

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6. On the Focus Your Request menu, press the Enter key to select
Greater Than (GT).
7. Type 3000.
Your Request line should now display MAX SO/IP IP GT 3000. This request asks for
the pitchers with the most strikeouts per innings pitched (MAX SO/IP) who have
pitched greater than 3000 innings (IP GT 3000).
8. Press F1 or the Enter key.
You see the most efficient strikeout-throwing starters in baseball.
9. When you're done, press the Escape key twice.

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Making Requests With MAX and MIN
Requests With Team and Year Limits
You can also limit your requests by team and by year. Just type or enter a team or
year Limiter.
Team Limiters can be the name of the team, the team's city, or the city's abbreviation.
For example, METS, NEW YORK, and NY are valid team Limiters.
Year Limiters can be a single year, a starting year, an ending year, or a year range.
For example, 1991, 1945-, -1991, and 1981-91 are valid year Limiters.
Remember, year ranges include statistics for the terminal years.
For example, 1945- includes statistics for 1945, and -1991 includes
the 1991 season.
Note: You can use only one team and one year Limiter in a list Request. You can,
however, use the numeric Limiters, GT and LT, with team and year Limiters in your
requests.
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1. At the Request line, type MAX W.
MAX W asks for the all-time winningest pitchers.
2. Press the space bar once.
3. Type DODGERS 1980-89.
Be sure to leave no spaces around the hyphen.
At the Request line, you should see MAX W DODGERS 1980-89. This request asks
for the winningest pitchers on the Dodgers in the 1980s.
4. Press F1 or the Enter key.
You see the pitchers. If you want to see a player's career statistics, press the down
arrow key to highlight the player. Then press the Enter key. To return to the list,
press the backspace key.
5. When you're done, press the Escape key twice.

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Making Requests With MAX and MIN
Requests With Qualifiers
Like Limiters, Qualifiers limit list request that start with MAX or MIN. Unlike Limiters,
however, you can use as many Qualifiers in a request as you like, and in any order.
For example, MIN WT HR GT 20 SS AL BR. This requests asks for the lightest
players (MIN WT) to hit more than 20 home runs (20 HR) in a single season (SS)
in the American League (AL) batting right-handed (BR).
You can type Qualifiers directly at the Request line. Or you can select them on the
Qualifiers menu. For a complete list of Qualifiers, see Appendix D in this manual.
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1. On the Request menu, press the down arrow key to highlight Maximum
(MAX).
2. Press the right arrow key.
You see the Batting Statistics menu.
3. At the Batting Statistics menu, highlight Slugging Percentage.
Then press the Enter key.
The Request lineshould now display MAX SLG.
4. On the Focus Your Request menu, highlight Select Qualifier(s).
5. Press the right arrow key.
The highlight bar should now be in the Qualifiers menu. You select Qualifiers by
pressing the arrow keys to highlight them and then pressing the Enter key. You'll see
a check mark next to each. To undo a Qualifier selection, press the Enter key at it a
second time.
6. Select the following Qualifiers: Bats Right (BR), Not Hall of Fame (NHOF),
and American League (AL).
7. Press F1.
The Request lineshould read MAX SLG BR AL NHOF. This request gives you the
players with the highest slugging percentage (MAX SLG) who bat right-handed (BR),
play in the American League (AL) and are not in the Hall of Fame (NHOF).
8. When you're done, press the Escape key twice.

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Making Requests With MAX and MIN
Typing Requests at the Request line
Once you understand how list requests are structured, you can type your requests
directly at the Request line rather than using the menus. Typing requests is the fast,
expert way to find statistics.
Requests beginning with MAX or MIN have this basic structure:
MAX or MIN + STATISTIC or RATIO + LIMITER(S) + QUALIFIER(S)
These rules apply to MAX and MIN requests:
• You must type a space after each element of the request--
commands, statistics, Limiters, and Qualifiers;
• The numeric Limiters, GT and LT, must be preceded by their
own statistic and followed by a number;
• You can type no more than two numeric Limiters in a request;
• You can type only one team and one year Limiter in a request;
• You can combine numeric, team, and year Limiters;
• You can type as many Qualifiers as you like, in any order.
You can also type requests that begin with AW (for Awards) or WS (for World Series)
Simply type a space and year after them.
For example, AW 1990 or WS 1903.
You'll learn more these requests later in this manual.
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1. At the Request line, type MAX HR/AB AB GT 2000 BL YANKEES 1945-.
Be sure to type a space between each element of the request.
This request asks for the players with the highest home-run-to-at-bats ratio (MAX
HR/AB), who have greater than 2000 career at-bats (AB GT 2000), who bat left-
handed (BL), and who have played for the Yankees after 1945 (YANKEES 1945-).
2. Press F1 or the Enter key to see the list.
3. When you're done, press the Escape key twice.

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Appendix A
Troubleshooting Guide
Problem Solution
1. I'm having trouble installing the
software. 1. Follow the directions in "Getting Started." Be sure that your computer
meets the specifications listed in
"Installing Big League Baseball."
2. When I type a ratio, I see a Bad
Request message. 2. You may have typed a ratio that mixes batting and pitching statistics,
which is not allowed. Retype your ratio
using batting statistics only or pitching
statistics only.
3. I'm not able to type or enter BA,
ERA, or SLG in my ratios. 3. BA, ERA, and SLG cannot be used in ratios because they are ratios. Type or
enter your ratios using simple statistics
only.
4. When I type a simple request and
press the Enter key, I see a Bad
Request message.
4. Make sure that you type a space
between every element of your
requests--between the command and
the statistic or ratio, between the
statistic or ratio and the Limiters and
Qualifiers.
5. My lists have no well-known players
in them. 5. You probably have entered a request with a ratio in which the denominator is
not limited by GT or LT. GT and LT
limit the range of statistics shown to
make them more meaningful. Read
"Making List Requests With Number
Limiters."
6. When I type GT or LT and press the
Enter key, I see a Bad Request
message.
6. The numeric Limiters, GT and LT,
must be preceded by their own statistic
or ratio and followed by a number. For
example, in the valid request MAX HR
AB GT 1000, HR is the statistic related
to MAX, and AB is the statistic related
to GT. 1000 sets the limit on AB. If
your request doesn't follow this format,
retype it.