{"product_id":"scrabble-lead-off-bingo-racks-aaabbcl-aabddel-9798504816364","title":"Scrabble Lead-Off-Bingo Racks: Aaabbcl Aabddel","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Francis Gurtowski\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Board Games\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt ought to be at least an outright misdemeanor cited in the official Scrabble Rule Book to overlook a nascent lead-off Scrabble bingo on your Scrabble rack.Instead, make the most of your golden opportunities to draw the lead-off Scrabble tiles from the bursting Scrabble bag.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUse this multiple-volume encyclopedia to avoid mishandling your singular chances to lead off with a Scrabble bingo and with it a fifty-point Scrabble bonus.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUse this handy book series to avoid unforced Scrabble errors right off the bat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe great Ricky Henderson holds the Major League Baseball record for most career lead-off home runs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo one ever has nor likely ever will come within a proverbial mile of Ricky Henderson's signature baseball statistic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen prodded Ricky Henderson no doubt can reminisce each of his eighty-one such freakish feats from soup to nuts: the stadium ambiance, for example, the pitcher, the pitch itself, and even the crack of the ball caroming off the bat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn my own humble way I can vividly recall not only my own few-and-far-between lead-off homers on the sandlot.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI can similarly rehearse my Scrabble highlights going back a long, long way to boyhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI can will myself to conjure pleasant images of my much more numerous leadoff bingos on the Scrabble board.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI treasure my lead-off bingos every bit as much as I fondly recall my lead-off homers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe American game of baseball is living chess personified by athletes and performed on a baseball field.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClassic chess and American chess are alike as managerial duels, and only their respective game pieces and settings set them apart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChess kings, queens, rooks, bishops, knights, and pawns are inanimate commodities which execute perfectly, and the chessboard is flawlessly flat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe better chess strategy always wins or draws.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClassic chess is equitable, and the same goes for Scrabble.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBaseball pitchers, batters, fielders, runners, and umpires are brain and brawn, and bad hops and similar environmental anomalies also abound.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe better baseball strategy is often thwarted.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmerican chess can be unfair in the short term, but absent injuries the baseball season is long enough to offset good or bad luck.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMy association of baseball with chess - and with Scrabble too! - is rooted in a personal history of remote rooting for the New York Baseball Giants.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHearts broke in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut when the Brooklyn Dodgers skulked off to Los Angeles and the New York Giants slinked away to San Francisco.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat day of infamy seems like only yesterday.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMany original Giants fans and die-hard Dodgers fans still pine for their lost teams and still miss the rivalry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrue believers await the repatriation of the Giants and the Dodgers to New York City - where the two teams rightfully belong!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUntil the expansion New York Mets came along to provide a sort of ersatz National League baseball, radio re-creations of the games played by the Giants and the Dodgers, in-studio, off a news ticker, pinch-hit as National League alternatives to the American League games of the steadfast New York Yankees.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo did the textual digests, of the at-bats of the Giants and Dodgers, in New York tabloids, help to fill the void until these features were edited out of the newspapers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Giants and the Dodgers were dumped to pump the Mets.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRemote rooting for the baseball Giants taught me to appreciate a good baseball game no matter how long after the game was actually played, and despite the intrinsic difficulties of parsing, visualizing, and assimilating the dusty, old scorecard information.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChess notations and textual re-creations of grandmaster chess classics are old hat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you read Scrabble Lead-Off-Bingo Racks carefully you will find elements of a nascent \"textual Scrabble notation\" for rehashing classic Scrabble games.See also the Scrabble Practice book series.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45564835823767,"sku":"9798504816364","price":2018.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798504816364.webp?v=1767929481","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/scrabble-lead-off-bingo-racks-aaabbcl-aabddel-9798504816364","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}