Scrabble Lead-Off-Bingo Racks: Scrabble Lead-Off-Bingo Racks : Aaabbcl Aabddel (Series #1) (Paperback)

It 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.<p>Use 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.</p><p>Use this handy book series to avoid unforced Scrabble errors right off the bat.</p><p>The great Ricky Henderson holds the Major League Baseball record for most career lead-off home runs.</p><p>No one ever has nor likely ever will come within a proverbial mile of Ricky Henderson's signature baseball statistic.</p><p>When 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.</p><p>In my own humble way I can vividly recall not only my own few-and-far-between lead-off homers on the sandlot.</p><p>I can similarly rehearse my Scrabble highlights going back a long, long way to boyhood.</p><p>I can will myself to conjure pleasant images of my much more numerous leadoff bingos on the Scrabble board.</p><p>I treasure my lead-off bingos every bit as much as I fondly recall my lead-off homers.</p><p>The American game of baseball is living chess personified by athletes and performed on a baseball field.</p><p>Classic chess and American chess are alike as managerial duels, and only their respective game pieces and settings set them apart.</p><p>Chess kings, queens, rooks, bishops, knights, and pawns are inanimate commodities which execute perfectly, and the chessboard is flawlessly flat.</p><p>The better chess strategy always wins or draws.</p><p>Classic chess is equitable, and the same goes for Scrabble.</p><p>Baseball pitchers, batters, fielders, runners, and umpires are brain and brawn, and bad hops and similar environmental anomalies also abound.</p><p>The better baseball strategy is often thwarted.</p><p>American chess can be unfair in the short term, but absent injuries the baseball season is long enough to offset good or bad luck.</p><p>My association of baseball with chess - and with Scrabble too! - is rooted in a personal history of remote rooting for the New York Baseball Giants.</p><p>Hearts 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.</p><p>That day of infamy seems like only yesterday.</p><p>Many original Giants fans and die-hard Dodgers fans still pine for their lost teams and still miss the rivalry.</p><p>True believers await the repatriation of the Giants and the Dodgers to New York City - where the two teams rightfully belong!</p><p>Until 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.</p><p>So 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.</p><p>The Giants and the Dodgers were dumped to pump the Mets.</p><p>Remote 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.</p><p>Chess notations and textual re-creations of grandmaster chess classics are old hat.</p><p>If 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.</p>